Product Description: The Flint Hills are America's last tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Known as the home of the Big Beef Steer, these rugged hills have produced exemplary cowboys both the ranch and rodeo varieties whose hard work has given them plenty of material for equally good stories...read more

Product Description: Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush country and deserts of the Southwestern borderlands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush country and deserts of the Southwestern borderlands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Gathers stories about Great Plains folklore, food, animals, life-styles, and homes, and shares interviews with plains dwellers