| Kicked off the train, the white hoboes told a sheriff that blacks had been attacking whites. |
| Back in my teens, I'd have dreams where all I did was run around grabbing boobies and reciting poetry to hoboes. |
| The sadness that soaks through Kerouac's story comes from the certainty that this world of hoboes and migrant workers and cowboys and crazy joyriders — the world of Neal Cassady and his derelict father — is dying. |
| We have seen sets from Jon Sands, Rae Clark, The Great Northwestern Hoboes and Real. |
| The son of a Massachusetts Republican lawyer, at Yale studying economics in the 1930s, he campaigned for union rights for college staff, and spent summers in factories and among hoboes. |
| Hundreds of thousands of hoboes were already riding the rails by the time the Great Depression greatly swelled their numbers. |
