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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kansas
ISBN-100700629939
ISBN-139780700629930
eBay Product ID (ePID)7050082275
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Flint Hills : Observations and Reminiscences from America's Last Tallgrass Prairie
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Sociology / Rural
Publication Year2020
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJim Hoy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2020-008281
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Hoy's gift as a writer is his attention to detail and the patience with which he chronicles life in a part of the world that is largely undocumented, even within the world of Western literature."-- Western American Literature "[Hoy's] descriptions of ranch life in the tallgrass prairie, past and present, are a major cultural contribution to the literature of place."-- Roundup Magazine, "[Hoy's] descriptions of ranch life in the tallgrass prairie, past and present, are a major cultural contribution to the literature of place."-- Roundup Magazine, "Jim Hoy knows the Flint Hills as well, if not better, than anyone who has written on the subject, and My Flint Hills is Hoy's 'love song' to the region. The stories in this book are reflections of life lived in the region and of the deep family ties he has to the hills. There are works on the Flint Hills but none with a passionate and informed voice like Hoy's. It is a joy to read Hoy's deep-rooted affection for the place he calls home."-- James Sherow , author of The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble "Grass isn't the only thing that grows beautifully in the Kansas Flint Hills. So do families, horses, tall tales, myths, unwelcome cedar trees, the number of stars you can see in the sky, and women who make legendary pies. Even when some folks are remembered only in fragments of amusing yarns, their names have a place in the deep and horizontal root system Jim Hoy cultivates. It's as if he anticipated the rest of us, stopping on I-35 between Emporia and Cassoday to admire the view from the scenic overlook at the Bazaar Cattle Pens, and wondering what's really happening out there in those hills. He did us the favor of writing it all down."-- C. J. Janovy , arts reporter and editor, KCUR (Public Radio Kansas City, MO) and author of No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas, "Jim Hoy knows the Flint Hills as well, if not better, than anyone who has written on the subject, and My Flint Hills is Hoy's 'love song' to the region. The stories in this book are reflections of life lived in the region and of the deep family ties he has to the hills. There are works on the Flint Hills but none with a passionate and informed voice like Hoy's. It is a joy to read Hoy's deep-rooted affection for the place he calls home."-- James Sherow , author of The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble "Grass isn't the only thing that grows beautifully in the Kansas Flint Hills. So do families, horses, tall tales, myths, unwelcome cedar trees, the number of stars you can see in the sky, and women who make legendary pies. Even when some folks are remembered only in fragments of amusing yarns, their names have a place in the deep and horizontal root system Jim Hoy cultivates. It's as if he anticipated the rest of us, stopping on I-35 between Emporia and Cassoday to admire the view from the scenic overlook at the Bazaar Cattle Pens, and wondering what's really happening out there in those hills. He did us the favor of writing it all down."-- C. J. Janovy , opinion editor at the Kansas Reflector , an affiliate of the national States Newsroom network of nonprofit news sites, and author of No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
Dewey Decimal978.188
Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgments Riding Out: Introduction -Like No Other Place on Earth My Flint Hills -Into the Hills -The Flying H Ranch -Kenneth and Marshall -Grandma Breidenstein and Grandma Hoy Cattle -Changes in Flint Hills Ranching -Wild Cattle and Outlaw Steers -Liggett Cattle Drive -Checking Brands -Weaning Calves -Why Shipping? Horses -Catching Horses -Horseshoeing -Horse Traders -Horse Thieves and Vigilantes -Winter Horses Some Ranches -Rogler Ranch -Clover Cliff Ranch -Sauble Ranch -Spring Hill Ranch and the Tallgrass National Preserve On the Road -Transportation and Status -Farm Trucks and Stock Trailers -Cattle Country Road Etiquette Life Around Cassoday -Bruce Behymer -May Memories -Central -Opal's Cafe -Conway Springs -Basketball at Cassoday High -Hometown Stories Nature -Coon Hunting -Bumblebees -Badgers -Flies and Screwworms -Coyotes -A Bit about Birds -The Green Glacier -Konza Prairie Biological Station -Water and Water Witches -Some Thoughts on Drouth -Let There Be Night Legends and Tales -Preston Plumb -French Frank -Yeager's Raid -Maud Wagner -Three Flint Hills Cowgirls -Rufe King Scatterings -The Flint Hills and Hollywood -High Culture in the Flint Hills -Dirt -Folk Signs -Flint Hills Rock Signs -Jake Leg -Cattle Guards Riding Back: Conclusion -Summer a Horseback Glossary Index
SynopsisA new memoir from Jim Hoy for the many readers who enjoyed Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie ., Between the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those fields of bluestem, cattle graze--and tending the cattle, someone like Jim Hoy, whose people have ranched there from, well, not quite time immemorial, but pretty darn close. Hoy has always called the Flint Hills home and over the decades he has made a study of them--their tough terrain and quiet beauty, their distinctive folk life and cattle culture--and marshaled his observations to bring the Flint Hills home to readers in a singular way. These essays are Hoy's Flint Hills, combining family lore and anecdotes of ranching life with reflections on the region's rich history and nature. Whether it's weaning calves or shoeing horses, checking in on a local legend or a night of high school basketball in nearby Cassoday, encountering a coyote or a badger or surveying what's happened to the tallgrass prairie over time, summoning cowboy traditions or parsing the place's plant life or rock formations, he has something to say--and you can bet it's well worth hearing. With his keen eye, understated wit, and store of knowledge, Hoy makes his Flint Hills come alive, and in the telling, live on.
LC Classification NumberF687.F55H693 2020
