Riding the Rails
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: We thought it was the magic carpet, you know, romance, the click of the rails.
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年 16 岁时离开威斯康星州的家：我们认为这是魔毯、浪漫、铁轨的咔哒声。
René Champion, emigrated from France in 1929, left Pennsylvania home in 1937 at age 16: And the sound of the whistle, the mournful sound of the train, it really pulls you.
René Champion 于 1929 年从法国移民，16 岁时于 1937 年离开宾夕法尼亚州的家：汽笛声、火车悲伤的声音真的很吸引你。
James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: I was running into something that I thought was adventure.
詹姆斯·圣朱尔 (James San Jule) 于 1930 年 17 岁时离开俄克拉荷马州的家：我遇到了一些我认为是冒险的事情。
For the next couple of years, I was a homeless kid riding freight trains.
在接下来的几年里，我是一个乘坐货运火车的无家可归的孩子。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: 1935, I expect it was.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：我想是 1935 年。
I was only 16 years old.
我当时只有16岁。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: I was 15 years old.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 于 1938 年 15 岁时离开怀俄明州的家：当时我 15 岁。
I was real excited.
我真的很兴奋。
I had two dollars and a half in my pocket.
我口袋里有两块半钱。
René Champion, emigrated from France in 1929, left Pennsylvania home in 1937 at age 16: I was young, I was 16 when I started.
René Champion 于 1929 年从法国移民，1937 年 16 岁时离开宾夕法尼亚州的家：我很年轻，我开始工作时才 16 岁。
I was also well-brought up.
我也从小受过良好的教育。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: One day when school got out, it was the month of June, in 1934, me and another guy caught our first train out.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家，当时年仅 16 岁：放学的一天，那是 1934 年的六月，我和另一个人搭上了我们的第一趟火车。
There was about twenty guys in the boxcar and they had to help us up 'cause I couldn't even reach the floor.
车厢里大约有二十个人，他们不得不把我们扶起来，因为我什至够不到地板。
Narrator: At the height of the Great Depression, there were 250,000 teenagers living on the road in America.
旁白：在大萧条最严重的时期，美国有25万名青少年流落街头。
The country's economic collapse had destroyed everything in their young lives.
国家的经济崩溃摧毁了他们年轻生活中的一切。
Their fathers had lost their jobs; they'd been evicted from their homes, even their schools went bankrupt and closed their doors.
他们的父亲失业了；他们被逐出家园，甚至他们的学校也破产并关闭。
Like millions of adults roaming the country between 1929 and 1941, thousands and thousands of boys and girls left home in search of a better life.
就像 1929 年至 1941 年间数以百万计的成年人在全国漫游一样，成千上万的男孩和女孩离开家乡寻找更好的生活。
This is the story of why they left, how they struggled to survive, and how their experiences shaped their lives.
这是关于他们离开的原因、他们如何挣扎求生以及他们的经历如何塑造他们的生活的故事。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: I remember the morning it happened.
1933 年，16 岁的吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 离开威斯康星州的家：我记得事情发生的那天早上。
I was working down in my shop before going to school.
上学之前我在自己的店里工作。
My dad came home and it seemed strange.
我爸爸回到家，感觉很奇怪。
The first time in my life I ever saw my father cry.
我有生以来第一次看到父亲流泪。
And he said, "I lost my job." He says "I don't have any work." And, well, that was devastating.
他说：“我失业了。”他说：“我没有工作。”而且，这真是毁灭性的。
I mean, 'cause they had now stripped him of his pride.
我的意思是，因为他们现在剥夺了他的骄傲。
Even though he was nothing but - he put pieces of metal in a machine that went clunk and that's it, that's what my dad did.
尽管他什么也不是——他把金属片放进一台机器里，机器发出沉闷的声音，就是这样，这就是我父亲所做的。
But he had his pride and he wanted to take care of his family, and it was getting so he couldn't, he couldn't.
但他有他的骄傲，他想照顾他的家人，但事实却让他做不到，他不能。
And so as far as I was concerned, it weighed in on you, and it bore down on you so hard, you said, "the hell with it, I'm gonna get out of here." And the quickest and easiest way to get out was go and jump a train and go somewhere.
就我而言，它对你产生了沉重的压力，它对你的压力如此之大，你说，“管它呢，我要离开这里。”最快、最简单的逃离方法就是跳火车去某个地方。
And I left a little note on the pillow and I said "I'll write."
我在枕头上留了一张小纸条，然后说：“我来写。”
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: I wanted to stay home and fight that poverty with the family.
克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 于 1929 年 16 岁时离开路易斯安那州的家：我想留在家里与家人一起对抗贫困。
But my father told me I had to leave.
但我父亲告诉我我必须离开。
It was very hurting, very badly, but I - he meant I had to go.
这非常痛苦，非常严重，但我——他的意思是我必须走。
But I didn't have it in my mind to leave until he told me, "Go fend for yourself.
但我并没有打算离开，直到他告诉我：“你自己照顾自己吧。
I cannot afford to have you around any longer."
我不能再让你在身边了。”
René Champion, emigrated from France in 1929, left Pennsylvania home in 1937 at age 16: I was raised in what would be called today a dysfunctional home.
勒内·钱皮恩 (René Champion) 于 1929 年从法国移民，1937 年 16 岁时离开宾夕法尼亚州的家：我是在一个如今被称为功能失调的家庭中长大的。
I was frequently beaten, beaten up for things which today would mark me or make me be considered as a battered child.
我经常被殴打，因为今天会标记我或使我被视为受虐儿童的事情而被殴打。
But I must say also that I've always had kind of a yen for wandering and I think it was a combination of my unhappiness at home plus this desire to roam.
但我还必须说，我一直对流浪有一种渴望，我认为这是我在家中的不快乐加上这种漫游的渴望的结合。
Both of those things are the things that drove me to my hoboing.
这两件事都是促使我流浪的原因。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: I was helping my dad milk and I was getting pretty cocky, I thought as long as I had to work like a man, I ought to be able to talk like one.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 于 1938 年离开怀俄明州的家，当时年仅 15 岁：当时我正在帮爸爸挤奶，我变得非常自大，我想只要我必须像个男人一样工作，我就应该能够像个男人一样说话。
And, so I snuggled up to my cow one night on my T-shaped stool and started to milk her and she swatted me in the eye with her dirty tail and I got up and whopped her one with my stool and cussed her out and my daddy came across that aisle like a wind and hit me up one side of the face and down the other and said, "Don't ever let me hear you talk like that again." And I said, "I'll leave home." And he said, "You'll be back for supper."
于是，有一天晚上，我在我的T型凳子上依偎着我的奶牛，开始给她挤奶，她用肮脏的尾巴打我的眼睛，我站起来，用我的凳子打了她一巴掌，咒骂她，我爸爸像风一样穿过那条过道，打了我的脸一侧，打到了另一侧，说：“别再让我听到你这样说话了。”我说：“我要离开家。”他说：“你会回来吃晚饭的。”
And there was this girl called Irene Willis and she wanted to go to Issaquah to see her parents and she was going to hitch-hike so she asked me to come along.
有一个叫艾琳·威利斯的女孩，她想去伊萨夸看望她的父母，她要搭便车，所以她邀请我一起去。
And I thought that was a great idea considering the conversation I'd had with my dad.
考虑到我和父亲的谈话，我认为这是一个好主意。
Clive (archival): Well, I'm from South Dakota and my home is in Rapid City, a very small town, and I've got a girlfriend there and the reason I'm in this large city is because she turned me down because I didn't have a job to show her good times and she turned to someone that could.
克莱夫（档案）：嗯，我来自南达科他州，我的家在拉皮德城，一个非常小的城镇，我在那里有一个女朋友，我在这个大城市的原因是因为她拒绝了我，因为我没有工作可以让她度过美好时光，而她转向了有能力的人。
Commissioner Hudson (archival): And now Charlie will you tell us where you came from and how you got here and what your purpose was in coming?
哈德森专员（档案）：现在查理能告诉我们你从哪里来、你如何来到这里以及你来这里的目的是什么？
Charlie (archival): Well, I came from Louisville, Kentucky, came on a freight train, and for adventure.
查理（档案）：嗯，我来自肯塔基州路易斯维尔，乘坐货运列车来到这里，是为了冒险。
Commissioner Hudson (archival): For adventure?
哈德森专员（档案）：为了冒险？
Most everybody that I know of that comes here is looking for a job.
据我所知，大多数来到这里的人都是为了找工作。
John Fawcett,: left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: I ran away from home three different times and I always left a note on my dad's desk in his study, telling him not to worry.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett)：1936 年，16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：我曾三次离家出走，我总是在父亲书房的桌子上留下一张纸条，告诉他不要担心。
My dad was the doctor, so in the Great Depression years, you know, I didn't even hardly know there was such a thing because we never had it hard.
我父亲是医生，所以在大萧条时期，你知道，我什至几乎不知道有这样的事情，因为我们从来没有经历过困难。
I certainly didn't run away from home because of home life.
我当然不是因为家庭生活而离家出走。
I just ran away from home - why do boys run away from home?
我刚刚离家出走——为什么男生要离家出走？
For adventure, I guess...
为了冒险，我想...
Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: You couldn't catch the freight train usually in the yard unless it was real late at night and you spotted where the bulls were, that's the railroad police, and if you knew that they weren't on your trail, you could catch one slowly as the train was moving out of the yard.
查理·布尔 (Charley Bull) 于 1930 年离开加利福尼亚州的家乡，当时年仅 19 岁：通常在院子里你无法赶上货运火车，除非是在深夜，你发现公牛在哪里，那就是铁路警察，如果你知道他们没有跟踪你，你就可以在火车开出院子时慢慢地赶上一列。
But generally speaking, you have to go just outside the yard, therefore you have to catch the train on the run.
但一般来说，你必须去院子外面，所以你必须在奔跑中赶火车。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: Detectives - the railroad detectives - were patrolling with lanterns and a rifle up and down the tracks.
1938 年，15 岁的佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 离开怀俄明州的家：侦探们——铁路侦探——提着灯笼和步枪在铁轨上来回巡逻。
But when that train started and it gave a - you know it always jerks loose and when it did that, this whole group of men just rose up like one person and rushed to that one door.
但是当那列火车启动时，它发出了——你知道，它总是猛地松动，当它发出这种声音时，这一整群人就像一个人一样站起来，冲向那扇门。
Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: You're running along and trying to match your speed with the speed of the train and you get a hand-hold here first and you swing yourself around and you're still running and you get two hand-holds.
1930 年，19 岁的查理·布尔 (Charley Bull) 离开加利福尼亚州的家：你一边跑步，一边试图让自己的速度与火车的速度相匹配，你先在这里得到一个把手，然后你把自己转过来，但你仍在跑步，你得到了两个把手。
Then is the first time you lift your foot.
然后就是你第一次抬起脚。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: And I was the first one there and somebody grabbed me by the nape of the neck and the seat of the pants and pitched me into that thing.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 于 1938 年 15 岁时离开怀俄明州的家：我是第一个到那里的人，有人抓住我的颈背和裤腿，把我扔进那个东西里。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: It was a good feelin' to be on one, really, with that cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, you hear that sound as you go.
克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 于 1929 年离开路易斯安那州，当时他 16 岁。
And the shakin'of it you know, and the cluck sound with the wheels hittin' those joints.
你知道，它的摇晃，以及车轮撞击这些关节时发出的咯咯声。
That's one of the things that I always thinks about.
这是我一直在思考的事情之一。
You gonna feel good just to hear that train, the whistle blow, you feel good when you get on it, you know.
只要听到火车的鸣响，你就会感觉很好，当你登上火车时，你会感觉很好，你知道。
'Cause you didn't have to walk, you just gonna get there, and you gonna try to better yourself.
因为你不必走路，你只要到达那里，你就会努力让自己变得更好。
Narrator: By the early 1930's, riding the rails became an epidemic, even though it was dangerous and illegal.
旁白：到了 1930 年代初，乘坐铁路成为一种流行病，尽管它既危险又非法。
In 1932, the Southern Pacific Railroad threw half a million transients off their boxcars, many of them teenagers.
1932 年，南太平洋铁路将 50 万过境旅客从车厢上扔了下来，其中许多是青少年。
In 1933, Warner Brothers produced the movie Wild Boys of the Road , warning young people about the dangers of riding freights.
1933年，华纳兄弟制作了电影《路上的野男孩》，警告年轻人乘坐货运的危险。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: Well I think Wild Boys of the Road , kids loved that movie.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds)，1938 年 16 岁时离开华盛顿的家：嗯，我认为《狂野男孩》(Wild Boys of the Road) 是孩子们喜欢的电影。
If you see a movie like that showin' kids traveling on trains, well that put the idea in your head, 'Well I could do that too.
如果你看到这样一部展示孩子们乘火车旅行的电影，那么你的脑海中就会浮现这样的想法：“我也可以这么做。”
I wouldn't mind doin' that.
我不介意这样做。
I'm not gonna get my leg cut off like that kid did in the movie.'
我不会像电影里那个孩子那样被砍掉腿。”
And like they say, you ride a freight train one time and you're hooked and I became an addict.
就像他们说的，你坐过一次货运火车，你就上瘾了，我也上瘾了。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16 (singing): Well I haven't got a nickel, not a penny can I show.
吉他·怀蒂 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家，当时年仅 16 岁（唱歌）：好吧，我一分钱都没有，我一分钱也没有。
Get off, get off you railroad bum, and he slammed that boxcar door.
下车，下车，你这个铁路流浪汉，然后他砰地关上车厢门。
He put me off in Texas...
他把我赶到了德克萨斯州...
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: I nearly was killed on my very first train ride.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家，当时年仅 16 岁：我在第一次乘坐火车时差点丧命。
As it picked up speed, the plank started to vibrate like a spring board throwing us up in the air and all we had to do was hang onto that one grab iron.
当它加速时，木板开始振动，就像一块跳板一样，把我们抛到空中，我们所要做的就是抓住那个抓斗铁。
And she was going faster and faster.
而且她的速度越来越快。
And all I could think of was, "I shouldn't have got on this train.
我所能想到的就是：“我不应该上这趟火车。
If I lose my grip I'm gonna die." And "What will my mother think?"
如果我失去控制，我就会死。”还有“我妈妈会怎么想？”
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: It was absolutely full of men, we were the only women.
1938 年，15 岁的佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 离开了怀俄明州的家：家里全是男人，我们是唯一的女人。
And it was evening, the sun was just setting.
当时是傍晚，太阳刚刚落山。
We sat down in the door and I was swinging my legs and Slim slapped my shins and said, "Hey, keep your feet down or you'll be jerked off by a switch, can jerk you right off into eternity."
我们坐在门边，我摆动着双腿，斯利姆拍打着我的小腿说：“嘿，把脚放低，否则你会被一个开关抽到，可以把你抽到永恒。”
Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: You could ride on top of a freight car and then you just had to be careful.
1930 年，19 岁的查理·布尔 (Charley Bull) 离开加利福尼亚州的家：你可以坐在货车顶上，但你必须要小心。
If a train is going sixty or seventy miles an hour and hits a curve and you're walking and your back's to the turn and you don't see it coming - a little tiny turn can throw you right off the train.
如果火车以每小时 60 或 70 英里的速度行驶并撞上弯道，而您正在步行，背对着转弯处而您没有看到它即将到来，那么一个小小的转弯就会使您立即脱离火车。
A lot of people have been killed like that, they don't know.
很多人就这样被杀了，他们却不知道。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: It was 6 below 0 when I ran away from home the first time.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett)，1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：我第一次离家出走时，气温是 0 分以下 6 度。
I can only imagine how my mother felt, you know.
我只能想象我母亲的感受，你知道。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: Hell, I don't think I was twenty miles down the road, riding in the blind of the car and it was cold and miserable.
1933 年，16 岁的吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 离开威斯康星州的家：天哪，我不认为我已经在路上二十英里了，坐在汽车的百叶窗里，天气又冷又痛苦。
Hell, I knew right then I had made a mistake.
天哪，我当时就知道我犯了一个错误。
Narrator: Being on a freight was full of unforeseen miseries.
旁白：在货运上充满了意想不到的痛苦。
In one moment, hobos could be thrown off a moving train by armed railroad detectives.
瞬间，流浪汉可能会被武装铁路侦探从行驶的火车上扔下来。
In the next, they could be suffocated by the smoke trapped in a tunnel, as one survivor, Maurice Ayers, recalled.
据幸存者莫里斯·艾尔斯回忆，接下来，他们可能会被困在隧道中的烟雾窒息而死。
Narrator (reading letter): "I looked up to see the train enter a tunnel.
旁白（读信）：“我抬头看到火车进入隧道。
The smoke overwhelmed me and I couldn't breathe.
烟雾笼罩着我，我无法呼吸。
I panicked and crawled to the top of a boxcar.
我惊慌失措，爬到一辆棚车的顶部。
When I came to, the train had stopped at a water tank.
当我醒来时，火车已经停在一个水箱旁。
I was violently sick, coughing up black coal smoke.
我病得很厉害，咳出黑煤烟。
I coughed it up for a year afterwards."
后来我咳嗽了一年。”
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: It was around midnight when our train pulled into the big passenger station, Ann Street Station in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：午夜时分，我们的火车驶进西弗吉尼亚州帕克斯堡的安街车站这一大型客运站。
And the train hadn't even stopped, and there was a gun and a flashlight in my face, right up there in the blinds.
火车甚至还没有停下来，一把枪和一个手电筒就在我的脸上，就在百叶窗里。
And so, the bull took us- told us to get down off there onto the platform and he took us, one in each arm, and walked us down the station platform and all these people getting on and off the trains.
于是，公牛带着我们 - 告诉我们从那里到站台上，他带着我们，每只手臂一个，带着我们走下车站月台，所有这些人上下火车。
And I don't remember ever being so humiliated.
我不记得曾受过如此羞辱。
This is at midnight.
这是午夜时分。
And in ten minutes, why, we were behind bars.
十分钟后，我们就进了监狱。
My first impression was the awful odor and stink.
我的第一印象是难闻的气味和臭味。
"The brute" as they call him was the man - most jails are like that - there's one person that runs the jail and Mick and I were both brought into his cell the day after we got in and we had to strip down, take our clothes off, prove to "the brute" that we didn't have any money belt or something like that.
他们所说的“野蛮人”就是这个人——大多数监狱都是这样——有一个人管理监狱，米克和我在进监狱的第二天就被带进了他的牢房，我们必须脱光衣服，脱掉衣服，向“野蛮人”证明我们没有带钱带或类似的东西。
And he asked us if we had any money.
他还问我们有没有钱。
And we said, "Well yeah, we did" because by that time we were scared to do anything else.
我们说，“是的，我们做到了”，因为那时我们害怕做任何其他事情。
So he says, "Okay, take off your shoes and let's have it." So anyway, that's where our six dollars went to.
于是他说：“好吧，脱掉鞋子，我们来吧。”无论如何，这就是我们的六美元的去处。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: Napa, Idaho, August 3rd, 1938.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 于 1938 年 15 岁时离开怀俄明州的家乡：1938 年 8 月 3 日，爱达荷州纳帕。
Dearest Mom, just a line to let you know I'm okay.
最亲爱的妈妈，只想告诉你我没事。
The police picked up Rene and I last night and put us in a cell.
昨晚警察带走了雷内和我，把我们关进了牢房。
We sure made use of the cots.
我们确实使用了婴儿床。
I hope they turn us loose soon so that we can go again.
我希望他们尽快放我们走，这样我们就可以再次出发。
This is the third time they've picked us up.
这是他们第三次来接我们了。
They all think we are runaways.
他们都认为我们是逃亡者。
Fooled, eh what?
被骗了，呃什么？
Love and kisses, Peggy Eaton.
爱与亲吻，佩吉·伊顿。
Narrator: Sleeping in jails and avoiding the bulls was a rough existence.
旁白：睡在监狱里、躲避公牛是一种艰难的生活。
And some runaways went back home when they'd had enough.
一些逃亡者受够了就回家了。
But this option could run out when the Depression caught up with their families.
但当大萧条降临到他们的家人身上时，这个选择可能就会消失。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: My father had a security business where he sold stocks and bonds and things and he was doin' real well up until about 1938, at which time he lost everything - and lost his business, couldn't even keep his house going or anything so my aunt let us live in a little cabin up in the hills rent-free while my father was trying to start another business, which he never did do.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家，当时他 16 岁：我父亲经营一家证券公司，出售股票、债券和其他东西，直到 1938 年左右他的生意一直都很好，直到那时他失去了一切，失去了他的生意，甚至无法维持他的房子或其他任何东西，所以我姨妈让我们免费住在山上的一间小小屋里，而我父亲则试图开始另一家生意，他从来没有做过。
He never earned another dime as long as he lived.
只要他活着，他就再也赚不到一毛钱。
And so we went from middle-class gentility right down to scrabble-ass poor.
就这样，我们从文雅的中产阶级变成了穷困潦倒的穷人。
Overnight.
过夜。
And I was the logical bread-winner, so I had to go out on the fruit tramp and ride freight trains and earn a little money.
而我是理所当然的养家糊口的人，所以我不得不出去卖水果，乘坐货运火车，赚点钱。
Narrator: Teenagers who were new to the road had high hopes about where their journeys would lead them.
旁白：刚踏上这条道路的青少年对自己的旅程将走向何方抱有很高的期望。
Some tried to earn a little money and send it home.
有些人试图赚一点钱寄回家。
For others, riding the rails was a passport to adventure.
对于其他人来说，乘坐铁路是冒险的通行证。
The freights would take them out West where they would become cowboys, or to the big cities where they would ship out and see the world.
货物将把他们带到西部，在那里他们成为牛仔，或者到大城市，在那里他们可以乘船去看世界。
James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: I was seventeen years old.
詹姆斯·圣朱尔 (James San Jule) 于 1930 年 17 岁时离开俄克拉荷马州的家：当时我十七岁。
My adventurous mind said "I want to ship out." I read all kinds of exciting books about people who did that - Richard Halliburton or Ross Simpson, and some others.
我的冒险精神说：“我想出去。”我读了各种关于这样做的人的令人兴奋的书籍 - 理查德哈利伯顿或罗斯辛普森，以及其他一些人。
And I tried to get a ship out of New York.
我试图让一艘船离开纽约。
Commissioner Hudson (archival): One of the very unfortunate things in connection with the Depression is the fact that so many people have left their homes to look for jobs in other places.
哈德森委员（档案）：与大萧条有关的非常不幸的事情之一是，许多人离开家园到其他地方寻找工作。
My advice to all everywhere is not to come to New York.
我对世界各地所有人的建议是不要来纽约。
There aren't enough jobs here to go around and it is very much better for all to remain in their own homes with their own friends and with those who can help them in their time of trouble and distress.
这里没有足够的工作机会，对所有人来说，最好还是留在自己的家里，和自己的朋友以及那些在他们遇到麻烦和痛苦时可以帮助他们的人在一起。
James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: I never did ship out.
詹姆斯·圣朱尔 (James San Jule) 于 1930 年 17 岁时离开俄克拉荷马州的家：我从未出过船。
And I lived down in a subway kiosk for four months, stole food from the Washington Market.
我在地铁站里住了四个月，从华盛顿市场偷食物。
This was the days of Herbert Hoover.
这是赫伯特·胡佛的时代。
Young people had no support whatsoever, none, zero.
年轻人没有任何支持，没有，零。
You were totally 100% on your own.
你完全是100%靠自己。
Narrator: Homeless and without jobs, kids who came to the cities had to turn to the missions or the Salvation Army.
旁白：无家可归又没有工作，来到城市的孩子们不得不求助于传教士或救世军。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: These missions were a place to get a free meal and some of them even had a place where you could sleep for the night so long as you sat through the sermon, you know.
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年离开威斯康星州，当时他 16 岁：这些传教区是提供免费膳食的地方，其中一些甚至还提供一个地方，只要你坐着听完布道，就可以过夜，你知道。
You sort of felt ashamed in a way 'cause I was going there because I wanted something to eat and they were preaching to me 'cause they wanted to save my soul, which probably needed saving.
你在某种程度上感到羞愧，因为我去那里是因为我想要吃点东西，而他们向我传教，因为他们想拯救我的灵魂，而我的灵魂可能需要拯救。
Narrator: City missions and relief agencies were overwhelmed by the number of young transients coming to them for help.
旁白：城市宣教团和救援机构因前来寻求帮助的年轻移民数量而不知所措。
In an effort to send teenagers back home, the authorities were tougher on them than they were on older transients.
为了让青少年回家，当局对他们的态度比对年长的过境者更严厉。
Relief stations gave adults six meals and two nights' lodging, but a teenager only got two meals and one night's lodging.
救助站为成年人提供六餐和两晚住宿，但一名青少年只得到两餐和一晚住宿。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: You didn't know where you was gonna find a job.
1929 年，16 岁的克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 离开路易斯安那州的家：你不知道要在哪里找到工作。
You'd say, 'Well, I'll go to such and such a place, I'll get a job.' That was just out, you just didn't - people just be walking just like cattle, you could see them - heads bouncin' along - goin' out tryin' to look for jobs and there wasn't any.
你会说，“好吧，我会去某某地方，我会找到一份工作。”那是刚刚出来的，你只是没有 - 人们只是像牛一样行走，你可以看到他们 - 头在跳动 - 出去试图寻找工作，但没有任何工作。
Narrator: City relief was so inadequate that most kids preferred to stay on the move between small towns, relying on the charity of farmers and housewives.
旁白：城市的救济非常不足，大多数孩子宁愿在小镇之间流离失所，依靠农民和家庭主妇的施舍。
Drifting into the hobo life.
逐渐陷入流浪汉生活。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: You had to really be on the bum, asking at back doors for handouts.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家，当时年仅 16 岁：你必须真正处于流浪状态，从后门索要施舍。
And a handout was somethin' they would give to ya in a sack to take you know, they called it a "lump" also and a "knee-shaker" is when you would sit down on the back porch and they'd bring ya a tray of sandwiches or somethin' to eat and a "sit-down" was when they'd ask you to come in and you could eat with the family.
施舍是他们在袋子里给你的东西，让你知道，他们也称之为“肿块”，“膝盖震动”是指你坐在后门廊上，他们会给你带来一盘三明治或吃的东西，“坐下”是指他们邀请你进来，你可以和家人一起吃饭。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: If they was white kids, they fared better.
1929 年，16 岁的克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 离开路易斯安那州的家：如果他们是白人孩子，他们会过得更好。
If it was black ones, you did not.
如果是黑色的，你就没有。
Some of them would turn you down and some of them didn't want you on their premises to go ask for nothin'.
他们中的一些人会拒绝你，而另一些人则不希望你在他们的场所去索取任何东西。
But a white one was treated much better.
但白人的待遇要好得多。
They might let them stay in a house with them, but me, I could sleep in a barn with the mules and hay.
他们可能会让他们和他们一起住在房子里，但我，我可以和骡子和干草一起睡在谷仓里。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: You know I was hungry all the time, and I wasn't used to hunger, you know.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：你知道我一直很饿，而且我不习惯饥饿。
I'd never been hungry before, dreadfully hungry, you know.
我以前从来没有饿过，饿得可怕，你知道。
Sometimes two and three days without anything to eat.
有时两三天没吃东西。
Nothing, you know.
没什么，你知道。
Getting food from a restaurant, there's kind of a technique you learn, you go walk back and forth in front of a restaurant or cafe and look for a man on a stool, usually at a counter, and you buzz right in there and speak right up to the waitress and give them the story, you know, "Have you got any work to do in exchange for something to eat?" And if you do get turned down, one or the other of these people that's beside you, there's a chance they will pipe up and say, "It's okay, lady, give the man his breakfast" or "give him a cup of coffee and I'll pay for it." And, then you're home free for the time, you know.
从餐馆拿食物，你要学会一种技巧，你在餐馆或咖啡馆前面来回走动，寻找一个坐在凳子上的男人，通常是在柜台上，然后你就在那里嗡嗡作响，直接对女服务员说话，给他们讲故事，你知道，“你有什么工作要做来换取吃的东西吗？”如果你确实被拒绝了，你身边的一个或另一个人，他们很可能会大声说：“没关系，女士，请给那个男人吃早餐”或“给他一杯咖啡，我来付钱”。然后你就可以暂时回家了，你知道。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: You'd start talking with kids, kids your age, sometimes you'd start talking with them.
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年 16 岁时离开威斯康星州的家：你会开始与孩子们交谈，与你同龄的孩子们，有时你会开始与他们交谈。
I was cutting the lawn once and there was a perfectly nice girl, you know and I started talking with her and her mother called her away.
有一次我正在修剪草坪，有一个非常好的女孩，你知道，我开始和她说话，她妈妈把她叫走了。
Boy, that really hurt, you know 'cause I, listen, I'm as good as she - you know or anybody, you know.
男孩，这真的很受伤，你知道，因为我，听着，我和她一样好 - 你知道或任何人，你知道。
I'm not a bum.
我不是流浪汉。
But after a while, people would let you know that you were a bum, you know, and so...
但过了一段时间，人们会让你知道你是个流浪汉，你知道，所以......
René Champion, emigrated from France in 1929, left Pennsylvania home in 1937 at age 16: You don't establish relationships.
René Champion 于 1929 年从法国移民，1937 年 16 岁时离开宾夕法尼亚州的家：你无法建立人际关系。
Certainly not with women.
当然不是与女性。
The women in the towns where hobos passed through just didn't want to have anything to do with them; we were viewed as bums.
流浪汉经过的城镇里的妇女只是不想与他们有任何关系；我们被视为流浪汉。
We smelled like bums, we looked like bums, we were dressed like bums.
我们闻起来像流浪汉，我们看起来像流浪汉，我们穿得像流浪汉。
Narrator: Towns which were struggling to take care of their own residents could be actively hostile to hobos.
旁白：那些努力照顾自己居民的城镇可能会对流浪汉充满敌意。
Young transients hoped they did not get injured or sick in places like Weatherford, Texas, whose local policy was to deny them medical help.
年轻的移民希望他们不会在德克萨斯州韦瑟福德这样的地方受伤或生病，那里的当地政策是拒绝他们的医疗帮助。
Instead, they were driven several miles out of town and dumped on the highway.
相反，它们被开出了城镇几英里，并被扔在高速公路上。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: My worst fears was bein' shot by some farmer who didn't want you around.
克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 于 1929 年离开路易斯安那州，时年 16 岁：我最担心的是被某个不想让你在身边的农民开枪射杀。
Because if dark catch you and you on their property they just might shoot you.
因为如果黑暗抓住你和你在他们的土地上，他们可能会开枪射杀你。
Narrator: For African Americans, traveling in the South was especially dangerous.
旁白：对于非裔美国人来说，在南方旅行尤其危险。
Lynchings were still considered part of local justice by many southern whites, and a young black transient could suddenly find himself in deep trouble.
许多南方白人仍然认为私刑是当地司法的一部分，一个年轻的黑人过境者可能会突然发现自己陷入了深深的麻烦。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: I was leavin' from Baton Rouge to go to Denham Springs, Louisiana, and this man made one stop in between at a small station place and somebody got on the train and was talking to the conductor and he says, "Well, that boy has to be put off here.
克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 于 1929 年离开路易斯安那州的家，当时 16 岁：我正从巴吞鲁日出发前往路易斯安那州的德纳姆斯普林斯 (Denham Springs)，这个人在中间的一个小车站停了一站，有人上了火车，正在和售票员交谈，他说：“好吧，那个男孩必须在这里下车。
They're goin' to lynch him.
他们要对他处以私刑。
See there has been a rape between here and Denham Springs, see and he fits the description." So, he put me off, right in the middle of the swamp.
看看这里和德纳姆斯普林斯之间发生了一起强奸案，看看他就符合描述。”所以，他把我拒之门外，就在沼泽地中央。
Probably saved my life.
可能救了我的命。
Narrator: Being a homeless migrant was considered a crime in itself.
旁白：成为无家可归的移民本身就被视为犯罪。
Vagrancy was punishable by prison or hard labor.
流浪会被判处监禁或苦役。
To avoid being arrested, young transients slept in temporary camps set up by hobos along the outskirts of towns.
为了避免被捕，年轻的过境者睡在流浪汉在城镇郊区搭建的临时营地里。
The camps were known as "jungles."
这些营地被称为“丛林”。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: A jungle is just a little transitory place where you can camp while you're waiting for your train.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年 16 岁时离开华盛顿的家：丛林只是一个临时的小地方，你可以在等火车时在这里露营。
And they were in little groves of trees where somebody would be sitting over a fire or maybe had his bedroll out and up in the branches of trees would be hanging things like mirrors so you could shave.
他们在小树林里，有人坐在火旁，或者可能把他的铺盖卷拿出来，树枝上会挂着镜子之类的东西，这样你就可以刮胡子。
And sometimes even razors.
有时甚至是剃须刀。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: Quite often in hobo jungles, there's residents in there, old jungle buzzards as we used to call them, that lived there for weeks or months at a time.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家乡：流浪汉丛林中经常有居民，我们过去称他们为老丛林秃鹰，他们一次在那里生活数周或数月。
And, you quite often get permission from them if you want to do something.
而且，如果你想做某事，你通常会得到他们的许可。
"Hey, I want to wash my clothes.
“嘿嘿，我想洗衣服。
Is that okay down there?" And he'd say, "Yeah, well, go downtown and bring us back some cabbage and then you can do whatever you want and you can have some of the Mulligan tonight." That's the way it worked.
下面还好吗？”他会说，“是的，好吧，去市中心给我们带一些卷心菜回来，然后你就可以做任何你想做的事，今晚你可以吃点穆里根。”这就是它的工作原理。
Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: I was usually assigned the job of bringing the money thing.
查理·布尔 (Charley Bull)，1930 年 19 岁时离开加利福尼亚州的家：我通常被指派负责带钱的工作。
I had to go and offer to work at the Safeway store.
我不得不去西夫韦商店工作。
And the man would say, "Well yeah, you can come and clean up out here where the trash is and clean all this up," and he says, "What do you want?" And I said, "Well if possible sir, I'd like to get a can of coffee." He said, "Okay, okay.
那人会说，“好吧，你可以过来清理垃圾所在的地方，把所有这些都清理干净，”他说，“你想要什么？”我说：“如果可以的话，先生，我想要一罐咖啡。”他说：“好吧，好吧。
You clean all that up." I said, "We need a can of condensed milk, too, and maybe a pound of sugar." He said, "Well, alright, alright, alright." And so, you know, it was almost tantamount to begging, but I would tell him what we really needed and he would find enough work for an hour or two for me and I would come home with the coffee.
你把这些都清理干净。”我说：“我们还需要一罐炼乳，也许还需要一磅糖。”他说：“好吧，好吧，好吧。”所以，你知道，这几乎等同于乞讨，但我会告诉他我们真正需要什么，他会为我找到足够的工作一两个小时，而我会带着咖啡回家。
Inquiring Cameraman (archival): Now we're going to give you a real inside view, an actual interview in a genuine hobo jungle.
询问摄影师（档案）：现在我们将为您提供真实的内部视角，在真正的流浪汉丛林中进行的真实采访。
You fellows come a long way?
小伙伴们，你们走了这么远吗？
Hobos (archival): Texas.
流浪汉（档案）：德克萨斯州。
Texas.
德克萨斯州。
Washington.
华盛顿。
Pennsylvania.
宾夕法尼亚州。
Montana.
蒙大拿。
New Jersey.
新泽西州。
New York.
纽约。
Narrator: Jungles offered shelter, but many recall how dangerous they were for young travelers.
旁白：丛林提供了庇护所，但许多人都记得丛林对于年轻旅行者来说是多么危险。
Narrator (reading letter): "These three fellas started working a con game so I told them to leave us alone.
旁白（读信）：“这三个家伙开始玩骗局，所以我告诉他们别打扰我们。
One of them jumped up and gouged me with a big, long pocket knife and then they took off.
其中一个跳起来，用一把又大又长的小刀挖我，然后就逃跑了。
If the wound in my chest had been a quarter of an inch deeper I would have died right there.
如果我胸口的伤口再深四分之一英寸，我就会当场死亡。
Ben Fowler."
本·福勒。”
Narrator (reading letter): This camp had two or three old men with their "boys" and they waited on the boys hand and foot just like they were queens.
旁白（读信）：这个营地里有两三个老人和他们的“男孩”，他们像女王一样侍候着男孩。
I being young and off the farm was approached by them a number of times.
我还年轻，又离开农场，他们曾多次接近过我。
Keith Weaver."
基思·韦弗。”
Narrator (reading letter): It was a time when a man could get killed for the shoes he wore, no matter what condition they were in.
旁白（读信）：在那个时代，一个人可能会因为他所穿的鞋子而被杀，无论他们的情况如何。
Gillson Tallentire."
吉尔森·塔伦泰尔。”
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: It didn't matter which direction the train was going.
1936 年，16 岁的约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：火车朝哪个方向行驶并不重要。
Just because the guys in the jungle tell you one night "No use going back east to Minneapolis, man I just came there was from there, there's nothing there." But when that train came by there was people got on and went back there, because you feel like when you're in those kind of desperate straits that anything is better than just sitting in the jungle, complaining or getting hungrier.
只是因为丛林中的人们有一天晚上告诉你“回到东部明尼阿波利斯是没有用的，我刚从那里来到那里，那里什么也没有。”但是当火车经过时，人们就上车回到那里，因为当你处于那种绝望的困境时，你会觉得任何事情都比坐在丛林中抱怨或变得更饿要好。
You got to get out and move.
你必须出去走走。
Narrator: Teenagers who traveled through Depression-era America saw a country in turmoil.
旁白：穿越大萧条时期美国的青少年看到了一个动荡的国家。
For many, it was a brutal education.
对于许多人来说，这是一种残酷的教育。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: Probably the most devastating thing was seeing whole families travel.
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年 16 岁时离开威斯康星州的家：最具毁灭性的事情可能就是看到全家人一起旅行。
We ran into a family once, there was a mother and two or three children.
有一次我们遇到一个家庭，有一个母亲和两三个孩子。
And we found out that just a couple days before, the father had been killed about two hundred miles down the road.
我们发现就在几天前，父亲在距离路两百英里的地方被杀了。
He was- they had gotten onto the boxcar and he was trying to get on and he slipped and fell.
他——他们已经上了棚车，他正想上车，结果滑倒了。
And this poor man was killed and his family was all alone and she was goodness heading for where.
这个可怜的人被杀了，他的家人孤身一人，她正在前往何处。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: Some of them were awful looking, I mean in real terrible condition, because there's a lot of people on the road that were dreadfully near starvation.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年离开西弗吉尼亚州的家，当时他 16 岁：他们中的一些人看起来很糟糕，我的意思是状况非常糟糕，因为路上有很多人都快要饿死了。
Okie families dispossessed from their farms, you know, in the Midwest.
你知道，在中西部，奥基人家庭被剥夺了农场的财产。
Narrator: The Depression and the terrible drought of the Dust Bowl had forced four million people onto the road.
旁白：大萧条和沙尘暴的严重干旱迫使四百万人上路。
Young hobos swelled this growing army of migrants looking for seasonal work.
年轻的流浪汉壮大了这支不断壮大的寻找季节性工作的移民大军。
Most headed west to California.
大多数人向西前往加利福尼亚州。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: It was all Okies, Arkies, Texans, and whoever, you know.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds) 于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家，当时年仅 16 岁：那里全是俄克拉荷马州人、阿基人、德克萨斯人，以及任何你知道的人。
We'd start in strawberries and work clear on through apples, and beans, hoeing hops, all kinds of things 'til potatoes in the fall down in Tule Lake, California, and end up shaking walnuts.
我们从草莓开始，然后是苹果、豆类、锄草花和各种各样的东西，直到秋天落在加利福尼亚州图勒湖的土豆，最后摇动核桃。
So, we'd run the whole gamut, maybe six or seven months and then I would have had enough money to buy groceries to see the family through the winter.
所以，我们会做所有的事情，也许六七个月，然后我就有足够的钱去买杂货来陪伴家人度过冬天。
Narrator: Young people looking for work had several strikes against them.
旁白：找工作的年轻人曾多次遭遇罢工。
They were inexperienced, and faced competition from adults who often had children of their own to support.
他们缺乏经验，并且面临着成年人的竞争，而成年人往往有自己的孩子需要抚养。
And young migrants were usually paid less than adults for the same work.
对于同样的工作，年轻农民工的工资通常低于成年人。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: I was doin' man's labor, not child's labor.
1929 年，16 岁的克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 离开路易斯安那州的家：我从事的是男人的劳动，而不是童工。
And I had somebody at home I was thinkin' about tryin' to go back and help.
我家里有人，我想回去帮忙。
I figured I was a man.
我以为我是个男人
'Cause I was helpin' to put somethin' on the table before I put my feet under the table.
因为在我把脚放到桌子下面之前，我正在帮忙把东西放在桌子上。
Narrator: The Depression pushed prices so low that some crops were almost worthless.
旁白：大萧条导致价格如此之低，以至于一些农作物几乎一文不值。
Young workers learned how desperate their employers were when they tried to collect their wages.
当年轻工人试图收取工资时，他们了解到雇主是多么绝望。
Narrator (reading letter): "Once I worked for man who wanted me to unload a coal car.
旁白（读信）：“有一次，我为一个要我卸煤车的人工作。
I stood up there and threw down the coal.
我站在那里，把煤扔了下去。
I worked all day.
我工作了一整天。
He gave me two tomatoes.
他给了我两个西红柿。
In South Dakota I worked all day in a wheat field.
在南达科他州，我整天在麦田里工作。
End of the day the farmer handed me 15 cents.
一天结束时，农民递给我 15 美分。
I gave it back to him.
我把它还给了他。
Told him if that's all he could give me for a day's work, then he should keep it because he must need it worse than me.
告诉他，如果这就是他一天工作所能给我的全部，那么他应该保留它，因为他一定比我更需要它。
George Rhoads."
乔治·罗兹。”
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: I rode the freight trains to Little Rock and then I had to walk all the way from Little Rock to Marshall, Arkansas - about a hundred miles.
1936 年，16 岁的约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：我乘坐货运列车前往小石城，然后必须从小石城一路步行到阿肯色州的马歇尔，大约一百英里。
I got a couple short rides by hitchhiking.
我搭便车有几次短途旅行。
But, I want to tell you about Marshall, Arkansas, if I can do it justice.
但是，如果我能公正地说的话，我想告诉你关于阿肯色州马歇尔的事情。
Because it was a small, Ozark mountain town of maybe a thousand or more, but it was a county seat with a courthouse in the middle and a block away you're out in the country again.
因为那是一个奥扎克山区小镇，人口可能有一千人甚至更多，但它是一个县城，中间有一个法院，距离一个街区远，你又回到了乡下。
And I spent the whole day just standing around that town square, listening to people talk, mostly farmers in overalls, poor hard scrabble farmers just hearing how life was like for people on the real edge.
我一整天都站在城镇广场周围，听人们说话，其中大部分是穿着工装裤的农民，贫穷的拼字游戏农民只是听到真正边缘的人们的生活是什么样的。
They talked about how tough life was and I had never heard people like that talk and what they talked about.
他们谈论生活是多么艰难，我从来没有听过这样的人谈论他们谈论的内容。
I was hearing about conditions in the country that seemed to me to be very awful, but I was hearing it from the people themselves, not from guys that were disconnected from society like hobos, who weren't home anymore, and maybe were just exaggerating, these people were talking about the way things are, and I think that had more impression on me than anything else on that trip in that this was true.
我听说这个国家的情况在我看来非常糟糕，但我是从人们自己那里听到的，而不是从像流浪汉这样与社会脱节的人那里听到的，他们不再在家，也许只是夸大其词，这些人正在谈论事情的真相，我认为这比那次旅行中的其他事情给我留下的印象更深刻，因为这是真的。
This is the way life is for people.
这就是人们的生活方式。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: I ran into two types.
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年 16 岁时离开威斯康星州的家：我遇到了两种类型的人。
One that firmly believed in the American system.
一个坚信美国制度的人。
By God, this is gonna work and the others were, honest to God, I swear, Marxist Revolutionaries.
上帝发誓，这会起作用，其他人，对上帝诚实，我发誓，是马克思主义革命者。
They wanted to start the revolution now.
他们想现在就开始革命。
I was a kid, I didn't quite understand, I sort of knew a little, it was later on it all started to sink in.
我当时还是个孩子，不太明白，大概知道一点，后来才开始明白。
We don't want to overlook the fact that this country was on the brink of hell.
我们不想忽视这个国家正处于地狱边缘的事实。
We were looking and searching for anything to get us out of this mess.
我们一直在寻找任何能让我们摆脱困境的东西。
Communism looked very, very attractive to people.
共产主义看起来对人们非常非常有吸引力。
I mean, we are going to share everything and we are all going to be one great big happy family.
我的意思是，我们将分享一切，我们将成为一个幸福的大家庭。
It was a lot of baloney, we weren't, but we believed it.
这是很多胡言乱语，我们不是，但我们相信它。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: Either on the trains or in jungles, you do get to talking about what this means in a broader sense, the social struggle.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：无论是在火车上还是在丛林中，你确实可以谈论这意味着更广泛的意义，即社会斗争。
Why does it have to be this way?
为什么一定要这样呢？
I can remember being aware of the difference between the working class and the ruling class in society - to put it in the terms that I use today.
我记得我意识到社会中工人阶级和统治阶级之间的区别——用我今天使用的术语来说。
Narrator: Although teenagers on the road witnessed strikes and riots, social upheaval did little to change their lives as hobos.
旁白：虽然路上的青少年目睹了罢工和骚乱，但社会动荡并没有改变他们作为流浪汉的生活。
They were far more concerned about their day-to-day survival.
他们更关心自己的日常生存。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: I didn't know when we left home to go on this trip to Issaquah, Washington that my partner was already three months pregnant.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 于 1938 年 15 岁时离开怀俄明州的家：我不知道什么时候我们离开家去华盛顿州伊瑟阔旅行时，我的伴侣已经怀孕三个月了。
I don't know how she carried that baby because of the tumbles we took and the way we lived and how we ate.
我不知道她是如何怀上这个孩子的，因为我们经历过的跌倒以及我们的生活方式和饮食方式。
It's a miracle to me that she carried that baby.
她能怀上这个孩子对我来说真是一个奇迹。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: Being on the road was a humiliating experience.
1933 年，16 岁的吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 离开了威斯康星州的家：在路上是一种屈辱的经历。
And it was, for want of a better word, carefree, and yet you were going nowhere, nothing was happening, there was no direction to your life, you were just drifting.
没有更好的词来形容，无忧无虑，但你却无处可去，什么也没有发生，你的生活没有方向，你只是在漂流。
Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: I was young and I felt nothing could defeat me, but some of these men, you could see they had become defeated.
查理·布尔，1930 年 19 岁时离开加利福尼亚州的家：我还年轻，我觉得没有什么可以打败我，但其中一些人，你可以看到他们已经被打败了。
The experience on the road was tougher for older men because they had been unemployed for a year, or two, or three years and it did appear to be really hopeless in many, many cases.
对于年纪较大的男性来说，路上的经历更加艰难，因为他们已经失业一年、两年或三年，而且在很多很多情况下，他们确实看起来毫无希望。
James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: There wasn't much camaraderie on the road that I remember.
詹姆斯·圣朱尔 (James San Jule) 于 1930 年 17 岁时离开俄克拉荷马州的家：我记得路上并没有多少友情。
Everybody had his or her own problem and they seemed to be all inward.
每个人都有自己的问题，而且似乎都是内向的。
René Champion, emigrated from France in 1929, left Pennsylvania home in 1937 at age 16: This road reminds me of many experiences that I had while hitchhiking out in the West.
René Champion 于 1929 年从法国移民，1937 年 16 岁时离开宾夕法尼亚州的家：这条路让我想起了在西部搭便车时的许多经历。
A rancher would pick me up on the highway, give me a ride, and turn down one of these dirt roads, and then about five or six miles off the main highway, say, "Well here's where I turn off to my place" and drop me off.
牧场主会在高速公路上接我，载我一程，然后转入其中一条土路，然后在距主干道约五六英里的地方，说：“好吧，我就在这里转弯去我住的地方”，然后让我下车。
And the worse part of it sometimes it would happen at night and there's no traffic whatsoever and I would have to spend the night out here.
更糟糕的是有时会发生在晚上，而且没有任何交通，我不得不在这里过夜。
And it's a terribly lonely feeling when you're in the wide open spaces.
当你在广阔的空间里时，这是一种非常孤独的感觉。
It's beautiful and wonderful during the day, but at nighttime, for miles and miles you see no light.
白天它美丽而美妙，但到了晚上，方圆几英里都看不到光。
Some of the worst feelings of loneliness that I have ever experienced in my life were in situations like this.
我一生中经历过的最糟糕的孤独感就是在这样的情况下发生的。
James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: The road itself was loneliness.
1930 年，17 岁的詹姆斯·圣朱尔 (James San Jule) 离开俄克拉荷马州的家：这条路本身就是孤独的。
I'll never forget sitting in that east Texas oil field one day when I wasn't working.
我永远不会忘记有一天，当我不工作时，坐在德克萨斯州东部的油田里。
My mother sent me a birthday cake.
我妈妈送了我一个生日蛋糕。
It probably was my eighteenth birthday.
那可能是我十八岁生日。
And by mail she sent it, I took it up on the hillside, I still remember, took this box with the cake in it, the cake was kinda squashed from being in the mail, took it up on the side of this hill and sat eating this birthday cake, crying my eyes out.
她通过邮件寄来了它，我把它带到了山坡上，我仍然记得，拿着这个装着蛋糕的盒子，蛋糕在邮件中有点被压扁了，把它带到了山坡上，坐在山坡上吃着这个生日蛋糕，哭得我眼睛都肿了。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: On the road I got homesick, a lot of nights layin' in the dark, total darkness, in a big empty house or barn.
克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 于 1929 年 16 岁时离开路易斯安那州的家：在路上，我想家了，很多个夜晚都躺在黑暗、完全黑暗的空荡荡的大房子或谷仓里。
I got homesick.
我想家了。
Some of it hurts now.
现在有些还疼。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: You had to do something with your life.
1933 年，16 岁的吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 离开威斯康星州的家：你必须为自己的生活做点什么。
You couldn't just roam around like a damn dog eating out of garbage cans.
你不能像一只从垃圾桶里吃东西的该死的狗一样到处闲逛。
And that's about what you were, you were a damn dog roaming the road.
这就是你的本来面目，你是一只在路上闲逛的该死的狗。
We took up with the carnival for a while, my buddy and I, and we ran into a guy and he was talking to us.
我和我的伙伴参加了狂欢节一段时间，我们遇到了一个人，他正在和我们说话。
He wanted to know where we were going and what we were doing and we said, "We might stay with the carnival" and he said, "Nah, you don't want to live with the carnival, that's no life for you kids," and then he told us about a thing called the CCC camp.
他想知道我们要去哪里，我们在做什么，我们说，“我们可能会留在嘉年华”，他说，“不，你不想和嘉年华一起生活，那对你们孩子来说不是生活”，然后他告诉我们一个叫做 CCC 营地的事情。
"Well, you go back home and Roosevelt's starting this thing and you can go off to a CCC camp," and I said, "What the Army's running this thing, I'm not having any Army guys push me around."
“好吧，你回家后，罗斯福就会开始做这件事，你就可以去 CCC 营地，”我说，“陆军在管理这件事，我不会让任何陆军人员左右我。”
Newsreel Narrator (archival): Thousands of jobless boys jump at the CCC offer of a decent living and money to send home in return for their labor.
新闻片旁白（档案）：成千上万的失业男孩欣然接受 CCC 提供的体面生活和寄回家的钱以换取他们的劳动。
Narrator: Young transients who could still provide a home address and get a signature from their parents were able to qualify for the Civilian Conservation Corps, where they could work for six months of food and shelter.
旁白：仍然可以提供家庭住址并获得父母签名的年轻移民，就有资格加入平民保护队，在那里他们可以工作六个月的食物和住所。
Newsreel Narrator (archival): Within a few months 240,000 raw non-descript lads are pouring into 1200 camps all over the country.
新闻片旁白（档案）：几个月之内，240,000 名毫无特色的小伙子涌入全国各地的 1200 个营地。
Opinions differ on the CCC as an American institution.
对于 CCC 作为美国机构的看法存在分歧。
Some point with alarm to its huge drain on the federal treasury; some fear it as a potential New Deal fascist army, but there is no debate on the value of the job the CCC boys have done to date for their country and for themselves.
一些人对联邦财政部的巨额消耗感到震惊。有些人担心它会成为一支潜在的新政法西斯军队，但对于 CCC 男孩迄今为止为他们的国家和他们自己所做的工作的价值没有争议。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: I was probably such a hard worker that -
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年 16 岁时离开威斯康星州的家：我可能是一个非常努力的人，以至于 -
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: You couldn't stand me setting such a bad example-
1933 年，16 岁的吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 离开威斯康星州的家：你无法忍受我树立如此坏的榜样——
Bill, Jim's friend: Listen, Jim, you'll never get way from your good-luck charm name that you got - Goldbrick.
吉姆的朋友比尔：听着，吉姆，你永远不会摆脱你的好运符名字——戈德布里克。
What was the other name they had for you?
他们给你起的另一个名字是什么？
Bill, Jim's friend: Mitchell the Moaner.
比尔，吉姆的朋友：抱怨者米切尔。
You'd moan about all the problems you had.
你会抱怨你遇到的所有问题。
Bill, Jim's friend: Yeah, I'll be darned if I ain't, and all shaved up too, ain't that nice?
比尔，吉姆的朋友：是的，如果我不这么做，我就该死了，而且我也剃光了，不是很好吗？
Bill, Jim's friend: It's hard to tell what became of all these guys here.
比尔，吉姆的朋友：很难说清这里的这些人都怎么样了。
Jim Mitchell, left Wisconsin home in 1933 at age 16: There was a wonderful social mixture in the CCC, social compost if you want.
吉姆·米切尔 (Jim Mitchell) 于 1933 年 16 岁时离开威斯康星州的家：CCC 里有一种美妙的社会融合，如果你愿意的话，可以说是社会堆肥。
You felt good about yourself because you fit and you were able to do your job along with the next guy that's what gave you confidence.
你对自己感觉良好，因为你适合并且能够与下一个人一起完成你的工作，这给了你信心。
At last, I could bring some help to my family.
终于，我可以给我的家人带来一些帮助了。
I could send them home twenty-five dollars a month.
我每个月可以寄给他们二十五美元回家。
You know, they could rent an apartment back then for ten dollars a month.
要知道，那时候他们每月十美元就可以租一套公寓。
And I could keep five dollars a month to blow away any way I wanted to.
我每个月可以存下五块钱，想怎么花就怎么花。
To this day, I can go and see parks that we built.
直到今天，我还能去参观我们建造的公园。
It's a living legacy.
这是一个活生生的遗产。
You didn't have a living legacy on the road.
你在路上没有留下任何活生生的遗产。
Narrator: The CCC lasted for nine years, offering kids like Jim Mitchell a way out.
旁白：CCC持续了九年，为像吉姆·米切尔这样的孩子提供了一条出路。
It was not available to everyone, however, and most young transients had to find their own way off the road.
然而，并不是每个人都可以使用这条路，大多数年轻的过路者不得不自己寻找道路。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: We got into Soda Springs, Idaho on a Saturday night and it was the Henry Stampede was in full swing.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 于 1938 年 15 岁时离开怀俄明州的家：周六晚上，我们来到爱达荷州的索达斯普林斯 (Soda Springs)，当时亨利牛仔节 (Henry Stampede) 正在如火如荼地进行。
And, that was real exciting.
而且，这真的很令人兴奋。
But that night, Irene had decided to start a relationship with one of these cowboys.
但那天晚上，艾琳决定与其中一位牛仔开始恋爱关系。
And I wasn't interested in that sort of thing.
我对那种事情不感兴趣。
And the next morning, I got up and confronted her and said, "Come on, let's go," and she said, "No, I'm going on with the boys to Sun Valley to the next rodeo.
第二天早上，我起床对着她说，“来吧，我们走吧，”她说，“不，我要和孩子们一起去太阳谷参加下一场牛仔竞技表演。
Come on and go with us." And I said, "No way, I'm going home." And so I was really frightened to walk out on the highway by myself.
来吧，跟我们一起走吧。”我说：“不行，我要回家了。”所以我真的很害怕独自走在高速公路上。
I was really frightened.
我真的很害怕。
The next ride I got was with a couple of maniacs.
我的下一趟旅程是和几个疯子一起的。
They drove like crazy down that canyon and drove up behind a hotel.
他们疯狂地开车驶下峡谷，来到一家酒店后面。
As we got out of the car, he said, "You go around and go up to room so and so," and he says "I'll be up after while." I said, "Okay." So, I walked chalantly - nonchalantly around the corner of the building and then I run as fast as I could down towards the railroad tracks.
当我们下车时，他说，“你绕一圈，到某某房间去，”然后他说，“我一会儿就起来。”我说：“好吧。”于是，我漫不经心地走着——漫不经心地绕过大楼的拐角处，然后以最快的速度跑向铁轨。
I was trying to hunt a freight to get out of there, you know.
你知道，我正试图寻找一辆货物离开那里。
One ride took me across the mountains and clear into my own town of Glendo.
我乘车穿过群山，来到了我自己的小镇格伦多。
A neighbor was in town and gave me a ride home.
一位邻居在城里，载我回家。
So, I was home in time for supper.
于是，我准时回家吃晚饭了。
I was lovingly greeted, I was never scolded, nobody ever questioned me.
我受到了亲切的欢迎，我从未被责骂过，也没有人质疑过我。
I was glad to be home.
我很高兴回到家。
But it was still hard times.
但那段时期仍然很艰难。
James San Jule, left Oklahoma home in 1930 at age 17: I surprised my father as he was driving into the driveway when he came back and he was angry.
詹姆斯·圣朱尔 (James San Jule)，1930 年 17 岁时离开俄克拉荷马州的家：当我父亲回来时，他正把车开进车道，我很惊讶他很生气。
It startled him so badly that his first reaction was one of anger.
这让他大吃一惊，他的第一反应是愤怒。
I'll never forget that.
我永远不会忘记这一点。
It was a bitter, bitter time.
那是一段痛苦、痛苦的时光。
All I was thinking about was getting out and on the road again.
我满脑子想的就是出去重新上路。
And I finally left and instead of going east this time, I went west.
我终于离开了，这次我没有往东走，而是往西走。
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: When I came back and I finished my senior year in high school, believe me, that senior year in high school was a troubled year for me.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：当我回来并完成高中四年级时，请相信我，高中四年级对我来说是充满麻烦的一年。
I saw teachers and heard teachers say things and I wanted to just go up and knock them in the face.
我看到老师，听到老师说话，我真想上去敲他们的脸。
I was asking questions that were embarrassing for teachers, you know, about why this is going on.
我问的问题让老师们感到尴尬，你知道，为什么会发生这种情况。
And one of my teachers said "We're not here to talk about things like that, I'm here to teach you Geometry." You couldn't ask a social question, or talk about people that are laying in the street, right in your own hometown - which there were.
我的一位老师说：“我们不是来谈论这样的事情的，我是来教你们几何的。”你不能问社会问题，也不能谈论躺在街上的人，就在你自己的家乡——那里确实有。
That trip on the road in 1936 changed my life, and changed my life in the way that I view the world that I live in.
1936 年的那次旅途改变了我的生活，也改变了我看待自己所生活的世界的方式。
Narrator: By 1941, the Depression was over, and a generation of boys and girls had spent their adolescence on the road.
旁白：1941年，大萧条结束，一代少男少女在路上度过了青春期。
They went on to join the Army, find jobs, and eventually have children of their own.
他们后来参军，找到工作，并最终有了自己的孩子。
But it was their time on the road which has had the greatest impact on the course of their lives.
但对他们的人生轨迹影响最大的是他们在路上的时光。
Narrator (reading letter): "When I was on the road I looked in a shop window and saw this dirty looking guy.
旁白（读信）：“当我在路上时，我往商店橱窗里看，看到了这个看起来很脏的家伙。
It was me.
是我。
I thought I was a complete failure.
我以为我是一个彻底的失败者。
I never overcame it.
我从来没有克服过它。
I'm 76 years old and still feel it.
我已经76岁了，仍然有这种感觉。
Earl Matthewson, Seldovia, Alaska."
马修森伯爵，阿拉斯加塞尔多维亚。”
Narrator (reading letter): "After World War II, I worked as a metal worker for 42 years.
旁白（读信）：“二战后，我作为一名金属工人工作了 42 年。
I missed 5 days of work in that whole time.
那段时间我错过了 5 天的工作。
I learned that when you get a job, hang onto it.
我了解到，当你找到工作时，要坚持下去。
Ben Fowler, Fremont, California."
本·福勒，加利福尼亚州弗里蒙特。”
John Fawcett, left West Virginia home in 1936 at age 16: Yeah, yeah, I do.
约翰·福塞特 (John Fawcett) 于 1936 年 16 岁时离开西弗吉尼亚州的家：是的，是的，我愿意。
Yeah!
是的！
Damn right.
该死的对的。
Oh yeah.
哦，是的。
You never get over that you know.
你永远无法忘记你所知道的。
It's dangerous, that's why it's fun, you know.
这很危险，但这就是为什么它很有趣，你知道。
Clarence Lee, left Louisiana home in 1929 at age 16: No, I don't want to ride one now.
1929 年，16 岁的克拉伦斯·李 (Clarence Lee) 离开路易斯安那州的家：不，我现在不想骑车。
I don't wanna ride one now.
我现在不想骑了。
I wouldn't want to do that again for nothin'!
我不想再无缘无故地这么做了！
That was days though, good gracious.
不过那已经是好几天了，天哪。
Guitar Whitey, Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds, left Washington home in 1938 at age 16: Truth to tell, I've ridden much more since I've retired than I ever did as a kid.
吉他·怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey)，即鲍勃·“吉他·怀蒂”·西蒙兹 (Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds)，16 岁时于 1938 年离开华盛顿的家：说实话，自从退休以来，我骑车的次数比小时候骑的次数多得多。
Because now I'll ride maybe ten thousand miles a summer.
因为现在我每个夏天可能会骑行一万英里。
And my wife says, they'll say "Where's Bob?" "Oh, he's, he's on a trip, he's traveling." "Oh yeah, how does he travel?" She says, "By train." And they all think it's by passenger train.
我妻子说，他们会问“鲍勃在哪里？” “噢，他在，他在旅行，他在旅行。” “哦，对了，他怎么旅行？”她说：“坐火车。”他们都认为是乘客运列车。
Card over Guitar Whitey: Bob Symmonds (Guitar Whitey), 72, joined the CCC and later shipped out as a merchant marine.
吉他怀蒂 (Guitar Whitey) 卡片：鲍勃·西蒙兹 (Bob Symmonds)（吉他怀蒂），72 岁，加入 CCC，后来作为商船队出征。
He says he'll stop riding the rails when he can no longer climb up onto a boxcar.
他说，当他无法再爬上棚车时，他将停止乘坐铁轨。
Card over Peggy De Hart: Peggy De Hart, 71, married at 16, raised a family, and ran a business.
佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 的卡片：佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart)，71 岁，16 岁结婚，养家糊口，经营一家企业。
She worked as a missionary in Trinidad and is active in her church in Seattle, Washington.
她在特立尼达岛担任传教士，并活跃于华盛顿州西雅图的教堂。
Peggy De Hart, left Wyoming home in 1938 at age 15: I would still like to ride a freight train, but I know it's not safe anymore.
1938 年，15 岁的佩吉·德哈特 (Peggy De Hart) 离开怀俄明州的家：我仍然想乘坐货运列车，但我知道它不再安全了。
I don't feel any older now than I did when I was fifteen.
我现在并不觉得自己比十五岁时老了。
I look in the mirror and see this old lady and don't recognize her, you know, because inside I'm the same age that I was back then.
我照镜子，看到这位老太太，但我不认识她，你知道，因为我内心的年龄与当时相同。
Charley Bull, left California home in 1930 at age 19: As much as the romance might have been there, it was never as good as Richard Halliburton made it out to be.
1930 年，19 岁的查理·布尔 (Charley Bull) 离开加利福尼亚州的家：尽管那里可能存在着浪漫的爱情，但它从来没有理查德·哈利伯顿 (Richard Halliburton) 所描述的那么美好。
I wouldn't do it again now for $100 a day, I probably wouldn't even do it for $200 a day.
现在如果每天 100 美元，我就不会再这样做了，甚至可能每天 200 美元也不会这样做。
500 - you might talk to me.
500 - 你可以跟我谈谈。
Slate: Charley Bull, 84, was an Army reporter in World War II.
Slate：查理·布尔 (Charley Bull)，84 岁，是二战期间的一名陆军记者。
He became a teacher and is a member of Veterans for Peace.
他成为一名教师，并且是退伍军人和平组织的成员。
Slate: : Jim Mitchell, 77, left the CCC to go back to high school at age 19.
Slate: : Jim Mitchell，77 岁，19 岁时离开 CCC 回到高中。
After college and the Army, he made promotional films for the auto industry.
大学毕业和参军后，他为汽车行业制作宣传片。
He lives in Jasper, Minnesota.
他住在明尼苏达州贾斯珀。
Slate: : John Fawcett was a merchant seaman, fighter pilot, and longtime union man.
Slate：约翰·福塞特是一名商船海员、战斗机飞行员和长期的工会会员。
He worked for civil rights in Mississippi in 1965, and became an anti-war activist.
1965 年，他在密西西比州为民权工作，并成为一名反战活动家。
John died in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 77.
约翰在华盛顿州西雅图去世，享年 77 岁。
Slate: : René Champion, 73, joined the Free French Forces in World War II.
Slate：：René Champion，73 岁，在第二次世界大战中加入自由法国军队。
He drove one of the tanks that liberated Paris.
他驾驶着一辆解放巴黎的坦克。
He is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver.
他是丹佛大学人类学教授。
René Champion, emigrated from France in 1929, left Pennsylvania home in 1937 at age 16: The sight of that train, the sight of it, the smell of it, the sound of it, made me cry.
勒内·钱皮恩 (René Champion) 于 1929 年从法国移民，1937 年 16 岁时离开宾夕法尼亚州的家：那列火车的景象、它的景象、它的气味、它的声音，让我哭泣。
And I'm probably going to cry again, because when I saw that train leave, I said goodbye, and I was really saying goodbye to a freedom that really somehow meets the innermost me, but yet it's no way to live, certainly not- not now.
我可能会再次哭泣，因为当我看到火车离开时，我说了再见，我真的在告别一种真正以某种方式满足我内心深处的自由，但它不是生活方式，当然不是——现在不是。
Slate: : James San Jule, 81, arrived in San Francisco by freight train.
Slate: : James San Jule，81 岁，乘坐货运列车抵达旧金山。
He became a union organizer on the waterfront.
他成为海滨的工会组织者。
In 1937, he co-wrote a pamphlet with John Steinbeck about migrant workers in California.
1937 年，他与约翰·斯坦贝克 (John Steinbeck) 共同撰写了一本有关加州移民工人的小册子。
Slate: : Clarence Lee got off the road when he found a job on a dairy farm in Baton Rouge.
Slate: : 克拉伦斯·李在巴吞鲁日的一家奶牛场找到工作后就离开了道路。
With his earnings he was able to buy his parents out of sharecropping.
他用自己的收入买下了父母的佃农收入。
At 80, he works as the groundskeeper at St. David's School in Richmond, California
80 岁的他在加利福尼亚州里士满的圣大卫学校担任场地管理员
During the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers lived on the road in America.
大萧条时期，美国有超过 25 万青少年流落街头。
Many a pulp novel, matinee movie, and Broadway melodrama has used the aura of the railroad to tell its tale.
许多低俗小说、日场电影和百老汇情节剧都利用铁路的光环来讲述故事。
While tales of friendships among vagabonds that transcended race abound, many African American vagabonds recounted being made to feel like outcasts among outcasts.
虽然流浪汉之间超越种族的友谊的故事比比皆是，但许多非裔美国流浪汉都表示自己感觉自己是被遗弃者中的被遗弃者。
Born on a Nebraska farm in 1916, Donald Newhouser rode the rails from 1935 to 1938, following the harvests through the West: the hay fields in Colorado, potato picking in Idaho, apples in Washington, hops in Oregon.
唐纳德·纽豪瑟 (Donald Newhouser) 1916 年出生于内布拉斯加州的一个农场，从 1935 年到 1938 年，他骑着铁路，追随西部的收成：科罗拉多州的干草田、爱达荷州的土豆采摘、华盛顿州的苹果、俄勒冈州的啤酒花。
The teenagers riding the rails during the Great Depression accounted for 1/16 (250,000) of a jobless army that numbered four million.
大萧条时期乘坐铁路的青少年占 400 万失业大军的 1/16（25 万人）。
Some left to escape poverty or troubled families, others because it seemed a great adventure.
有些人离开是为了逃避贫困或陷入困境的家庭，另一些人则因为这似乎是一次伟大的冒险。