A new edition of "Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great
Depression" by Errol Lincoln Uys has been published by Routledge, New
York.
Author's website: www.erroluys.com
THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Riding the Rails" is a riveting do***ent of hope and hard****p during one
of this nation's bleakest eras. For all that has been written about the
Depression, the travails of those under the age of 18 have been sorely
underrepresented. Gripping and well-researched, this book by Errol
Lincoln
Uys is a companion piece to the award-winning 1997 do***entary of the
same
name. With more than 500 interviews and stunning archival photographs by
Walker Evans, Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange, Uys so thoroughly
recreates
the wretched conditions the boxcar boys and girls endured that the
reader
can all but hear the cadence of the trains on the tracks and the lonesome
wail at every whistlestop."
THE LIBRARY JOURNAL
This is an elegantly presented and quietly moving collection of firsthand
reminiscences, capturing a unique moment in American history. Uys, a
veteran writer and editor, is the author of the historical novel Brazil.
Enthusiastically recommended for all public libraries.
AMAZON.COM
Whether you're a "gaycat" (novice rider) or a "dingbat" (seasoned hobo),
Riding the Rails is entertaining and inspiring, recapturing a time when
the
country was "dying by inches." -- Sunny Delaney, History Editor
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