Of Mice and Men: The Great Depression - The Uncommon Struggle of All Men "I've been doin' some hard travelin', I thought you'd knowd. I've been doin' some hard ramblin', way down the road. . .I've been layin' in a hard rock jail. . .I've been laid out ninety days, way down the road. The darned old judge, he said to me, it's ninety days for vagrancy, and I've been doin' some hard travelin', Lord." This was the tune or the song of almost everyone during the Great American Depression. People faced struggles everywhere they turned. We