Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie
Fifth-generation Kansas cowboy Jim How says that he feeds on the stories of the prairie and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses: "The Flint Hills are my home country, the land that nurtured my life and nourished my soul. My roots here are as deep as those of bluestem...
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Fifth-generation Kansas cowboy Jim How says that he feeds on the stories of the prairie and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses: "The Flint Hills are my home country, the land that nurtured my life and nourished my soul. My roots here are as deep as those of bluestem grass in black-soil bottomland.... I was reared among cattle and horses, ranchers and cowboys, pasture work and rodeos, and that is the Hills that I know and these are the stories I've heard." Blending history, folklore, and reminiscences, he traces the saga of America's last tallgrass prairie as only a true cowboy-scholar could.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780700614561 (0700614567)
Publish date: April 27th 2006
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Edition language: English
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