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Starting with “Rolling Nowhere,” his 1984 account of hopping trains with hoboes, Conover has made a career of immersing himself in seemingly impenetrable subcultures, then writing with sympathy and insight about his experiences.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022

He traveled around the world — Haiti, Bosnia, Afghanistan — for high-profile magazine assignments and rode the rails across the United States, chronicling some of the last of the hoboes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Or will Rory’s talk of hoboes and the inconsequence of mankind as seen from space have some effect on Pete’s work on the new alpine skiing account?

From Slate • May 7, 2012

They prefer to wear beards and blue jeans, avoid soap and water, live in dingy tenements or, weather permitting, take to the road as holy hoboes, pilgrims to nowhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

He traveled for a long time with the hoboes and worked for a short time as a scarecrow.

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo