The annual convention of the Local Tourist Union No. 63 originally was the time set aside to elect a hobo leader for the following year. The Local 63 has decreased in numbers over the years, but the ...

Darrel "Tuck" Ray has caught the westbound train. That's the hobo community's way of saying that Ray, 58, has died. Named King of the Hobos several times, he died of lung cancer on June 20 at Our Lady ...

ST. PAUL -- It's still up in the air whether American will ever elect a president from Minnesota. But a king and queen of hobos? We've got that. All hail Uncle Freddie and Minneapolis Jewel. The two ...

Hobo camps or "jungles," as they were often called, grew up in the local area in the 1920s and continued into the Great Depression. A hobo can be defined as someone who illegally rides the trains ...

The croissants at the Encinitas Pannikin are as big as my head, and they aren’t even close to the most gorgeously decad ent baked goodies on display in the glass cases that greet visitors to this ...

The hobo known as Iowa Blackie died last week, leaving two brothers, many friends in Northland railroading circles and a collection of rough-hewn poetry. Iowa Blackie (real name Richard Gage), a hobo ...

BRITT, Iowa — This year's Hobo Memorial Ceremony in the north-central Iowa city of Britt saw the remains of three people buried in Evergreen Cemetery. A man known as Bo Grump, of Sioux Falls, S.D., ...