In May 1877, a homeless stranger walked uninvited into a home in Coventry, demanding something to eat. The woman of the house, the only person at home, picked up a stick of firewood and ordered the ...
America’s poor who wandered the country have been called many things: tramp, hobo, bum, loafer, knight of the road. An anonymous Depression Era saying put it this way: a tramp wanders and dreams, a ...