U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959. This study contains descriptions of aboriginal sites in the Flint Hills. Wilson, Anne Browning, ed. Flint Hills Folklife. The information in this pamphlet was collected by students in Wilson's English class.
Rodeo is the only major professional sport based on skills used for manual labor.
Other than rodeo, none of these is a big-time spectator or participant sport. Tuning work skills into play is just another aspect of the uniqueness of the Great Plains cowboy. Fat ones boarded boxcars for Kansas City in the late summer. The bluestem pastures filled up with Herefords, Brahmas, and mysterious critters of uncertain parentage form Mexico and the Southwest. Enterprising pasture men hustled leases that brought together landowners and cattlemen.