Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

"A remarkable story! A riveting book of hope and hardship during one of America's bleakest eras." - Boston Globe. 

At the height of the Great Depression, a quarter of a million teenagers were hopping freight trains with the hope that a better life awaited them farther down the line. Illustrated with rare archival photos and drawing on letters and histories of three thousand men and women who hopped freight trains in the 1930s. At journey’s end, the resiliency of these survivors is a testa...