Flint Hills Cowboys
Subtitle: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: April 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780700614561
Subjects: Local history; Ranch life; History; History - U.S.; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History: American; Kansas; Social life and customs; General; United States - Midwest - West North Central (General); United States - State & Local - General; Cowboys; Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)
First sentence: I never knew the Badger brothers, but I sure wish I had.
Description: "Jim Hoy blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood in a book that 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."--BOOK JACKET.