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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reissue. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In 1870, sixteen-year-old Frank Maynard left his home in Iowa and arrived in Towanda, Kansas, where he soon took a job helping to trail a small herd of cattle from Missouri to Colorado. Thus began his adventures as an open-range cowboy, a ten-year career that coincided with the peak of the great trail-drive era. Among the highlights of Maynard s time on the range were brushes with outlaws and encounters with famous lawmen, such as Bill Tilghman and Bat and Ed Masterson (he was in Dodge City when Ed was shot). On one drive Maynard was set upon and chased by irate German homesteaders; on another he narrowly escaped being killed by a man known as Slusher while driving horses from Kansas to Texas. But Maynard s most enduring contribution sprang from overhearing a version of an old Irish ballad in 1876 and reworking it as The Cowboy s Lament, the standard most recognize today as The Streets of Laredo. His role in adapting the song and his other colorful experiences on the trail have come to light with the recent discovery of his unpublished memoir. Now, alongside the frontier recollections of Charlie Siringo and Charles Colchord, Maynard s personal account offers a rare and revealing glimpse of the true Old West.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The Flint Hills are America's tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Here, the author blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood. He traces Flint Hills' cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to trucking era.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. In 1870, sixteen-year-old Frank Maynard left his home in Iowa and arrived in Towanda, Kansas, where he soon took a job helping to trail a small herd of cattle from Missouri to Colorado. Thus began his adventures as an open-range cowboy, a ten-year career that coincided with the peak of the great trail-drive era. Among the highlights of Maynard s time on the range were brushes with outlaws and encounters with famous lawmen, such as Bill Tilghman and Bat and Ed Masterson (he was in Dodge City when Ed was shot). On one drive Maynard was set upon and chased by irate German homesteaders; on another he narrowly escaped being killed by a man known as Slusher while driving horses from Kansas to Texas. But Maynard s most enduring contribution sprang from overhearing a version of an old Irish ballad in 1876 and reworking it as The Cowboy s Lament, the standard most recognize today as The Streets of Laredo. His role in adapting the song and his other colorful experiences on the trail have come to light with the recent discovery of his unpublished memoir. Now, alongside the frontier recollections of Charlie Siringo and Charles Colchord, Maynard s personal account offers a rare and revealing glimpse of the true Old West.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. Jim Hoy grew up in the Flint Hills on a ranch at Cassoday that's been in his family for five generations and boasts roots ""as deep as those of bluestem grass in black-soil bottomland."" He now draws on this area's rich cowboy lore - as well as on his own experience working cattle, breaking horses, and rodeoing - to write a folk history of the Flint Hills spanning a century and a half. Hoy blends 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. Hoy introduces readers to the likes of Lou Hart, a top hand with the Crocker Brothers from 1906 to 1910, whose poetic paean to ranch life circulated orally for fifty years before seeing print. And he tracks down the legend of Bud Gillette, considered by his neighbors the world's fastest man until he fell in with an unscrupulous promoter. He even unravels the mystery of a lone grave supposed to be that of the first cowboy in the Flint Hills. Hoy also explains why a good horse makes up for having to work with exasperating cattle - and why not all horses are created (or trained) equal. And he traces Flint Hills' cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to today's trucking era, with most railroad stockyards torn down and only one section house left standing. Writes Hoy, ""I feed on the stories of the Hills and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses."" His love of the land shines throughout a book so real that readers will swear they hear the click of horseshoes on flint rock with every turn of the page.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. The Flint Hills are America's tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Here, the author blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood. He traces Flint Hills' cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to trucking era.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. Jim Hoy grew up in the Flint Hills on a ranch at Cassoday that's been in his family for five generations and boasts roots ""as deep as those of bluestem grass in black-soil bottomland."" He now draws on this area's rich cowboy lore - as well as on his own experience working cattle, breaking horses, and rodeoing - to write a folk history of the Flint Hills spanning a century and a half. Hoy blends 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. Hoy introduces readers to the likes of Lou Hart, a top hand with the Crocker Brothers from 1906 to 1910, whose poetic paean to ranch life circulated orally for fifty years before seeing print. And he tracks down the legend of Bud Gillette, considered by his neighbors the world's fastest man until he fell in with an unscrupulous promoter. He even unravels the mystery of a lone grave supposed to be that of the first cowboy in the Flint Hills. Hoy also explains why a good horse makes up for having to work with exasperating cattle - and why not all horses are created (or trained) equal. And he traces Flint Hills' cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to today's trucking era, with most railroad stockyards torn down and only one section house left standing. Writes Hoy, ""I feed on the stories of the Hills and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses."" His love of the land shines throughout a book so real that readers will swear they hear the click of horseshoes on flint rock with every turn of the page.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized.…

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Condition: Fine. Hardcover, [xiii], 202 pages. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Size 8.5"x5.75". "As in their first book, the authors have written about hardy plains dwellers (a rare breed who feel out of place anywhere except on the prairie) and their cultural heritage, which derives from many sources in both the Old World and the New. Here are stories about plains folklore, animals, food, life-styles, and artifacts in a land of buttermilk and blabs, Bigfoot and bindweed." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear. Don Johnson (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Two Line Gift Inscription On The Front Pastedown. Lower Front Corner Bumped. The Jacket Has Light Edge Wear With A Tiny Tear At The Lower Edge. Johnson, Don (illustrator).

Softcover. Dust Jacket Condition: 1911, now with a new. First Thus. soft cover; otherwise very well-kept. xiv,; Very Good Crisp, clean pages except for a prior owner's stamp on the first (publisher) page and sparse, pale foxing around outside edges shows only light shelfwear at ends of spine 356pp. A reprint of a book originally published in 1911, now introduction. Illustrated by Smith, Erwin E. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX. 2010. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light foxing to textblock top and fore edge. DJ: Very Good +; small splash marks on bottom of rear flap; light bumping to head; small closed tear on top of rear panel. Red paper over boards with brown cloth overlay on the spine with brown and gilt lettering on the spine in a gilt shadowbox. 216 pp 8vo. This book is the story of a Kansas cowboy. In 1870 the author left Iowa for Kansas and found a job as cowpuncher in Towanda Kansas. Over the next 10 years he drove cattle across the Great Plains and the Southwest experiencing brushes with outlaws and lawmen. His unpublished memoir details his song and poem days along with recollections of Charlie Siringo and Charles Colchord. A clean very presentable copy.…

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Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.