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Pages on this site containing general information on hoboes and trains:

November 23, 2005 — Inspiration
Snippets of wisdom that caused me to pause and reflect (or at least pause)
November 23, 2005 — A Return to Britt — What a Mistake!
by Captain Cloud, Grand Duke of Hoboes
May 27, 2006 — Bibliography
The listing of books, etc. has been expanded and moved to my other website, the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture, on the Bibliography page
June 12, 2006 — buZ blurr
The man who gave us "Colossus of Roads"
 

Articles appearing on websites with information on hoboes:

November 20, 1995 — Club Wired: Abdul Rahim
by James Glave for Club Wired
March 2, 1999 — Press Release
from the Union Pacific Online
October 31, 2001 — Railroaded
by Silke Tudor for sfweekly.com
November 23, 2005 — Photo Bill's search for Bozo Texino
by Andrew Hultkrans for Stim
November 23, 2005 — Riding the Cyber-Rails
by Frederic Larson for 24 Hours in Cyberspace
 

College and University papers:

December 14, 1997 — Train Tags
by Sam Caplan for a University research paper
November 23, 2005 — Riders of the Rails
by Holly Dohrn for a College research paper
November 23, 2005 — The Hobo Is Dead. Long Live the Hobo.
by Alex Brand for a University research paper
November 23, 2005 — A Study into Hobo Literature
by Nial Anderson for a University research paper
June 9, 2006 — The American Hobo
by Colin Beesley for a University research paper
 

Magazine articles:

August 1998 — Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
by James R. Chiles for the Smithsonian
November 1998 — Stealing Rides
by Nelson Taylor for Bikini
June 1999 — Damn Track
by Steven Kotler for Maxim
December 2000 — Trainhopping
by Matthew Power for Blue: The Adventure Lifestyle
February 9, 2003 — Hobo Chronicles
by Eddy Joe Cotton for the San Francisco Chronicle magazine
November 23, 2005 — On the Rail Again
by Jan Hertoghs for the Belgian magazine Humo
November 23, 2005 — The Art of Vandalism
by Allen Abel for Saturday Night
November 23, 2005 — interview with buZ blurr
by Blake Donner for the Fifth Goal (a zine about Boxcar Art)
November 23, 2005 — The Wanderers
by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
November 23, 2005 — Train Hopping the Fraser Canyon
by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
June 9, 2006 — Train Hopping Canada's West
by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
July 21, 2006 — Train Hopping Across Canada - part 1
by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
July 21, 2006 — Train Hopping Across Canada - part 2
by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
July 21, 2006 — Train Hopping Across Canada - part 3
by Rodney Graham for the Winnipeg, Manitoba Street Sheet Canada
 

Newspaper articles:

April 19, 1994 — Ax attack in freight car kills hobo
by Ellen Miller for the Denver Post
January 14, 1996 — American Nomads
by Ken Howe for the San Francisco Chronicle
January 15, 1998 — Trainhopping
by James Hibberd for the Austin American-Statesman
February 5, 1998 — Train Gang
by Dave Irwin for the Tucson Weekly
June 14, 1998 — Hobo activities
by Mark Hodson for the London Sunday Times
August 31, 1998 — Hobos hope for peace with railroad
by Matthew Schofield for the Kansas City (MO) Star
January 14, 1999 — Loco Motives
by Dave Irwin for the Phoenix New Times
January 28, 1999 — Hobos hurt over serial-killer image
by Martha Irvine for the Associated Press
May 2, 2000 — Riding the Rails From K.C. to Texas
by Rex for the San Francisco Examiner
May 5, 2000 — Young Hoboes Take to the Tennessee Rails
by John Yates for The Tennessean
July 13, 2000 — Trainspotting
by Katia Dunn for the Portland Mercury
August 30, 2000 — St. Paul hosts the alternative hobo convention
by Paul Demko for the Twin Cities' City Pages
Spring 2001 — The Other Side of This Life
by Patrick Marley for the Alternative Press Review
Dec. 28, 2001 — Urban Explorers, Crawling and Climbing Into the Past
by Carolyn Hughes Crowley for the Washington Post
July 26, 2002 — The Hobohemians
by Ben Ehrenreich for the LA Weekly
December 6, 2002 — Beamsplitters
by Joseph Gallivan for the Portland (OR) Tribune
December 16, 2002 — Under the Bridge, a Man of Means by No Means
by Charlie LeDuff for the New York Times
January 6, 2003 — Art or vandalism, railcar graffiti roll across land
by David Paulsen for the Wausau (WI) Daily Herald
February 16, 2003 — Real hobos ride the rails as a way of life
by Deb Saine for the Logansport (IN) Pharos-Tribune
March 14, 2003 — Train hoppers' adventure ends in arrest
by John Lynch for the Longview (TX) News-Journal
March 18, 2003 — Living on the Edge
by Patricia Cooper for the Charlottesville (VA) Cavalier Daily
March 26, 2003 — Dude, Where's My Train? (a review of Sarah George's film "Catching Out")
by Mike Connor for Metro Santa Cruz
April 2, 2003 — Long Gone (a review of David Eberhardt and Jack Cahill's film "Long Gone")
by Jeremy O'Kasick for the Twin Cities City Pages
June 1, 2003 — Last Days on the Tracks (Roger "the Dodger" Bryant finally retires)
by Lee Beach for the Klamath Falls, OR Herald & News
June 19, 2003 — Rail culture: the language of freight-hoppers
by James D. Graham for the Charlottesville (VA) Hook
August 20, 2003 — Tramps found riding the rails
by Jonathan Gneiser for the Marshfield News-Herald
September 25, 2003 — Down the Track
by K.J. Longley for the North Little Rock (AR) Times
October 17, 2003 — buZ blurr exhibit is a sharp study in contrast
by Sarah Rozeboom for the Northwest Arkansas Times
March 14, 2004 — Scenery Junkies (a review of Lucius Shepard's book "Two Trains Running")
by John Mark Eberhart for the Kansas City (MO) Star
April 18, 2004 — Young hobos said to be seeking escape
by Daniel Jackson for the Scripps Howard News Service
August 4, 2004 — Jumping Someone Else's Train
by Craig Metz for Metro Santa Cruz
August 11, 2004 — The Real Grand Excursion
by Mike Mosedale for the Twin Cities' City Pages
October 24, 2004 — Life on the Open Rails
by Bryon S. Houlgrave for the Charles City (IA) Press
December 17, 2004 — The Wander Years
by Leslie Dunn for the Monterey County (CA) Herald
September 28, 2005 — Man of Many Marks
by Johnny Ray Huston for the San Francisco Bay Guardian
November 23, 2005 — Part of Americana? — the rail-riding hobos
by Jason George for the Des Moines Register
November 23, 2005 — Hopping Freight Trains in the Twilight of Hobo Tradition (a review of Sarah George's film "Catching Out")
by Stephen Holden for the New York Times
March 26, 2006 — Railway Renegades
by Leonie Sherman for the San Francisco Chronicle
May 4, 2006 — A Different Breed of Freighthoppers
by Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell for the New York Times
April 2, 2007 — Riding the Rails
by Bonnie Henry for the Tucson Arizona Daily Star
August 30, 2008 — Hobby Hobos
by Laura Drake for The Ottawa Citizen
May 13, 2009 — On the run from everything but each other
by Christopher Goffard of the Los Angeles Times