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

November 23, 2005 — Inspiration
Snippets of wisdom gleaned from several of the books mentioned in the bibliography below
November 23, 2005 — A Return to Britt — What a Mistake!
by Captain Cloud, Grand Duke of Hoboes
May 27, 2006 — Bibliography
Probably the most complete listing of books, videos, movies and magazine and newspaper articles about hoboing that can be found anywhere, originally put together by Shoefly Jay
June 12, 2006 — buZ blurr
The man who gave us "Colossus of Roads" still has a few copies of his book available for sale and no library should be without one
 

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