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Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie
de Jim Hoy
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- ISBN 10
- 0700617582
- ISBN 13
- 9780700617586
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Paperback / softback. New. The 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 to 1910, 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.
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- A9780700617586
- Título
- Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie
- Autor
- Jim Hoy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Paperback / softback
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 5
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0700617582
- ISBN 13
- 9780700617586
- Editorial
- University Press Of Kansas
- Lugar de publicación
- Lawrence, Ks
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2010
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