Cowboys and Kansas: Stories from the Tallgrass Prairie

by Jim Hoy and James F. Hoy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806128674
• ISBN13: 9780806128672
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"