Flint Hills Cowboys; Tales from the Tallgras Prairie
by Jim Hoy
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0700617582
- ISBN 13
- 9780700617586
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$20.00$14.00
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About This Item
Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 2006 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 2006. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to lower tips. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 319 pp 8vo. The Flint Hills are America's last tallgrass prairie set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Known for feeding steers for market 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. The author history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood in a book that richly recalls the ranching life and the people who lived it. Here are cowboys and outlaws, rodeo stars and runaway horses, ordinary folks and the stuff of legends. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010686
- Title
- Flint Hills Cowboys; Tales from the Tallgras Prairie
- Author
- Jim Hoy
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0700617582
- ISBN 13
- 9780700617586
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Place of Publication
- Lawrence, KS
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Kansas history, Kansas Flint Hills, Great Plains, Prairie grasslands, cowboys, ranches, steers, cattle feeding, horses, cow horses, rodeo cowboys, Flint Hills, gramma grass, bluestem grass,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.