Reporters

• Josiah Flynt
• Ted Conover

Additional Resources

• "Undercover Explorations of the 'Other Half,' or the Writer as Class Transvestite" - Eric Schocket - Representations

• "Jamie The Kid" - Josiah Flynt - Harper's

  October 1, 1895
  Although based on Flynt's actual experiences, this piece was published in Harper's as fiction. It tells the story of ...

• "How Men Become Tramps" - Josiah Flynt - The Century | Conclusions from Personal Experience as an Amateur Tramp
  

  October 1, 1895
  Half literary and half sociological, in this article Flynt describes the different ways in which men and boys enter ...

• "What to do with the Tramp" - Josiah Flynt - The Century

  September 1, 1894
  In this article, Flynt explorers how society at large can most effectively deal with tramps. First, he gives the ...

• "The City Tramp" - Josiah Flynt - The Century

  March 1, 1894
  In this lengthy article, Flynt describes the diverse and varied ecology of tramping in urban areas. He explains that ...

• "The Tramp at Home" - Josiah Flynt - The Century

  February 1, 1894
  In this account, Flynt describes in detail the week he spent tramping around upstate New York. While many of Flynt's ...

• "The Tramp and the Railroads" - Josiah Flynt - The Century

  June 1, 1899
  This article by Flynt concentrates on a tramp's primary means of transportation: the railroads. Flynt gives an ...

• "Tramping with Tramps" - Josiah Flynt - The Century | The American Tramp Considered Geographically
  

  November 1, 1893
  In this article, Josiah Flynt compares and contrasts the tramp culture's different regions of North America: "the ...

• "Tales Tramps Tell" - Josiah Flynt - Los Angeles Times | Their Wails of Woe Must Often Be Veritable Works of Arts
  

  January 7, 1900
  In this special report to the Los Angeles Times, Flynt reveals different strategies tramps employ while begging for ...

• "How Hobos Are Made" - Josiah Flynt - Los Angeles Times | A Specialist in the Evolution of the Tramp
  

  February 11, 1900
  Josiah Flynt analyzes a certain strata of hobo society that is called "Gay Cats," which he describes as young men ...

• Josiah Flynt's "The Little Brother: A Story of Tramp Life"

  1902
  

• Josiah Flynt's "Notes of an Itinerant Policeman"

  1900
  

• Josiah Flynt's and France Walton's "The Powers that Prey"

  1900
  

• Josiah Flynt's "The World of Graft"

  1901
  

• "Railroad Slums" - Josiah Flynt - The Independent

  June 15, 1899
  Flynt writes about the "railroad life" led by tramps and robbers. He points out that this is a uniquely American ...

• "Tramp Boys" - Josiah Flynt - The Independent

  March 9, 1899
  Here, Flynt talks about the large number of adolescent boys that adopt tramp-life.

• "Club Life Among Outcasts" - Josiah Flynt - Harper's

  April 1, 1895
  Flynt writes about the hierarchy and structure within the homeless or "tramp" community in the late nineteenth ...

• "Life Among German Tramps" - Josiah Flynt - The Century

  October 1, 1893
  Josiah Flynt explores the life of a German tramp.

• "A Morning with Pops" - Ted Conover - Amherst Alumni Magazine

  January 1, 1981
  As a senior at Amherst college, Conover rode freight trains in the guise of a tramp for his senior thesis in ...

• Ted Conover's "Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes"

  1984
  

• "A Morning with Pops" - Ted Conover - Amherst Alumni Magazine

  January 1, 1981
  As a senior at Amherst college, Conover rode freight trains in the guise of a tramp for his senior thesis in ...

• Douglas Harper's "Good Company: A Tramp Life"

  1982
  

• Douglas Harper's "Good Company: A Tramp Life" (updated version of 1982 book)

  2006
  

• Lee Meriwether's "How to See Europe on 50 Cents a Day: A Tramp's Trip"

  1886