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For hundreds of thousands of young men, the old republican ideals of independent proprietorship receded to the horizon as new habits of casual labor and lodging grew up on the wage workers frontier. When the burgeoning subculture staged its real-life Industrial Army marches of 1894, labor tribunes struggled to define the protest in terms of republicanism, while the mainstream press mobilized new comic caricatures to deride what it termed Coxeys Army. But the Industrial Army movement was neither the chaotic rising of a desperate lumpenproletariat described by William Aspinwall, nor the beer-laden carnival imagined by John James McCook. Rather, the Industrials petition in boots represented the first collective expression of hobohemia, an emergent subculture of western hobo labor whose presence would both beguile and bedevil the nation for decades to come. --Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, p. 58
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