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A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days

By Walter A. Wyckoff
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A series of first-person narratives recounts an eighteen-month experiment of living and earning as an unskilled day laborer while traveling from the Northeast to the Pacific. Episodes portray encounters with fellow itinerants, railway and farm hands, and boarding-house life, detailing routines, hardships, and local characters met along the way. Vignettes alternate descriptions of specific occupations such as section-hands and burro-punchers with impressions of poverty, hospitality, and the practicalities of transient work. The work combines observational detail and personal reflection to sketch labor conditions and popular habits of the late nineteenth-century working class.

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Walter A. Wyckoff

Walter A. Wyckoff was an American author and social observer known for his insightful explorations of labor and society in the early 20th century. His notable works include "A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days," which reflects on the lives of marginalized individuals, and "The Workers: An Experiment in Reality," a two-part examination of the working class in both the East and West of the United States. Through his writings, Wyckoff contributed to the understanding of social issues and the human condition during a transformative period in American history.

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