SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For more than half a century, Springfield’s rail yards were a crossroads for hoboes — transient workers who traveled on freight trains in search of work, adventure, or simply a ...

She had the opportunity to reunite with her father when she was 38 years-old and had a family of her own. “I saw an article, ‘Last real hobo calls it quits,'” she said. The story was about her father ...

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 ...