Female hobos were an integral part of the hobo culture, and their stories and experiences have been documented in literature, photography, and other forms of media.
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'ho-bo plural hoboes also hobos. : a homeless and usually penniless wanderer : tramp.
Others claim it came from the soldiers returning from the Civil War, who were Homeward Bound. Some suggest it is from the congenial greeting Hello boy that changed to Lo boy and Lo bo and finally to Ho bo. Others think it came from the word hoosier, meaning a rustic individual, a frontiersman.
Contemporaneous with London, Leon Ray Livingston, better known as “A-No. 1,” claimed to be the most famous hobo in the United States by the beginning of the twentieth century. He had travelled across the world, purportedly logging over 500,000 miles on just $7.61. [6] He recounted his journeys in over a dozen books.