Mulligan Stew: Stories and Traditions of American Hobos

Ever since track was first laid for the great locomotives, hobos have listened to the call of the rails, lured by the possibility of free transportation to another place-if they could make their way unnoticed and unharmed. They rode the rails for various reasons-to escape economic hardship, satisfy an urge for adventure, or simply to feed their wanderlust. Along the way, they developed their own culture.

Mulligan Stew contains a variety of ingredients from the hobo culture: hobo life as i...