(Harper) In the harsh, cold landscape of early 20th-century America, futures and fortunes are being made, much as they always are, on the backs of the underpaid and underrepresented workers and the fortunate ones call the shots, giving nothing in return. On the outskirts of brand-new towns born beside mines, farms and logging operations in and around Coeur D’Alene, Spokane, and Seattle, men — bums, tramps, hobos, stiffs — snatch itinerant work as they can find it, spending the little they earn in taverns an … (read more)
