After Sam's death, the men who still go on the annual hunt find a new site for their camp, traveling by wagon "two days and almost forty miles" further than the Big Bottom (301).
The character himself does not appear in the story, but the place where Pat Stamper sets up his camp is called "Hoke's pasture" (123), from which it seems safe to infer that Hoke is a farmer who rents the patch to the horse-trader.