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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kansas
ISBN-100700614567
ISBN-139780700614561
eBay Product ID (ePID)50872906
Product Key Features
Book TitleFlint Hills Cowboys : Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie
Number of Pages332 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicGeneral, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Sociology / Rural
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJim Hoy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-035961
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsThere are only a few cowboy-scholars of the Great Plains who manage to wear the Stetson and the mortar board with equal grace. E. E. Dale comes to mind, and now, thanks to Flint Hills Cowboys, so does Jim Hoy. Writing from roots. Grounded. Real.
Dewey Decimal978.188
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Into the Hills: an Introduction Part I: Flint Hills Cowboys 1. Granville and John 2. Elmer Cooper 3. Black Cowboys in the Flint Hills 4. Lou Hart and the Boys Who Work for Crockers Part II: Cattle and Horses 5. Some Horses 6. The Whirlaway Mare 7. Gift Horses 8. Pasture Pranks 9. To and From the Stockyards 10. The Little Houses Part III: Ranching in the Flint Hills 11. Winter in the Hills 12. Down at the Crick 13. Good Fences 14. Chapman Posts 15. The Flint Hills Firestick 16. Teter Rock Part IV: Rodeo and Other Amusements 17. Two Rodeos 18. The Burdick Field Day and Rodeo 19. BIll Pickett in the Flint Hills 20. Baseball and Boxing 21. Cowboy Polo 22. Bud Gillette, World's Fastest Runner Part V: Rough Country 23. Death in the Hills 24. The Brandley-Rinard Murder Case 25. The Murder of Robert Clark 26. Dave Rudebaugh, Outlaw 27. Bank Robbers 28. Bootleg Whiskey 29. The Saga of Greenwood City 30. A Hunting Tale Afterword Index
SynopsisThe Flint Hills are America's last tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Known as the home of the Big Beef Steer, these rugged hills have produced exemplary cowboys-both the ranch and rodeo varieties-whose hard work has given them plenty of material for equally good stories. Jim Hoy grew up in the Flint Hills on a ranch at Cassoday that's been in his family for five generations and boasts roots "as deep as those of bluestem grass in black-soil bottomland." He now draws on this area's rich cowboy lore-as well as on his own experience working cattle, breaking horses, and rodeoing-to write a folk history of the Flint Hills spanning a century and a half. Hoy blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood in a book that richly recalls the ranching life and the people who lived it. Here are cowboys and outlaws, rodeo stars and runaway horses, ordinary folks and the stuff of legends. Hoy introduces readers to the likes of Lou Hart, a top hand with the Crocker Brothers from 1906 to1910, whose poetic paean to ranch life circulated orally for fifty years before seeing print. And he tracks down the legend of Bud Gillette, considered by his neighbors the world's fastest man until he fell in with an unscrupulous promoter. He even unravels the mystery of a lone grave supposed to be that of the first cowboy in the Flint Hills. Hoy also explains why a good horse makes up for having to work with exasperating cattle-and why not all horses are created (or trained) equal. And he traces Flint Hills cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to today's trucking era, with most railroad stockyards torn down and only one section house left standing. Writes Hoy, "I feed on the stories of the Hills and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses." His love of the land shines throughout a book so real that readers will swear they hear the click of horseshoes on flint rock with every turn of the page.
LC Classification NumberF687.F55H69 2006
