| Cowboys and Kansas: Stories from the Tallgrass Prairie Reissue Edition Contributor(s): Hoy, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806128674 ISBN-13: 9780806128672 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $16.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 978.1 |
| LCCN: 94029789 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.54" W x 8.29" (0.65 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Kansas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Cowboys and Kansas, Jim Hoy educates and entertains us with essays and tales about cowboy life that are based on personal experience, folklore, and history. Introduced to cowboys--famous and obscure, historical and contemporary--we hear them tell about troublesome horses they have ridden, rattlesnakes they have encountered, and outlaws they have met. We experience the details of the cowhand's daily work (roping, counting, and shipping cattle, riding with a trail herd) and play (rodeos, horse races, roping contests, poetry). We meet women drovers, Wild West show riders, and jockeys in a section on cowgirls, and we learn the history of cowboy boots, pants, hats, and saddles. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hoy, Jim: - Jim Hoy, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University, writes about Flint Hills history and folklife. He is the coauthor, with Tom lsern, of Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains and Plains Folk II: The Romance of the Landscape, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |