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.

""Cowboys and Kansas offers . . . a vibrant, fascinating facet of the modern American West. It will have a broad appeal for the general history reader and to the fan of western or range life. To the folklorist and social historian, it is a mother lode of primary source material."" - Lawrence Clayton, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Hardin Simmons University""This is a very enjoyable and instructive collection of writings from a proud native son. Kansans will swell with pride. Others will find fascinating tidbits to compare with cowboy and ranch life elsewhere in the West."" - Richard W. Slatta, Journal of the West.

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.

""Cowboys and Kansas offers . . . a vibrant, fascinating facet of the modern American West. It will have a broad appeal for the general history reader and to the fan of western or range life. To the folklorist and social historian, it is a mother lode of primary source material."" - Lawrence Clayton, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Hardin Simmons University""This is a very enjoyable and instructive collection of writings from a proud native son. Kansans will swell with pride. Others will find fascinating tidbits to compare with cowboy and ranch life elsewhere in the West."" - Richard W. Slatta, Journal of the West.

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.

""Cowboys and Kansas offers . . . a vibrant, fascinating facet of the modern American West. It will have a broad appeal for the general history reader and to the fan of western or range life. To the folklorist and social historian, it is a mother lode of primary source material."" - Lawrence Clayton, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Hardin Simmons University""This is a very enjoyable and instructive collection of writings from a proud native son. Kansans will swell with pride. Others will find fascinating tidbits to compare with cowboy and ranch life elsewhere in the West."" - Richard W. Slatta, Journal of the West.