Huck the hobo RESTLESS SPIRIT
Apr 25, 2018
3 minutes
TEXT — NAOMI LARSSON
PHOTOGRAPHY — TAYLOR FRONTIER
You don’t choose your name as a hobo. You earn it. Steven Boutwell gained his while working with another travelling kid on farms in Washington State. Something about his adventurous spirit and southern drawl inspired the boy to start calling him Huckleberry, after the Mark Twain character.
“He pegged me pretty easy with the name,” Huck says now. “I eventually said, ‘You have to drop the ‘berry’ part, so call me Huck or something.’ Then you go to another town
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