Celebrated folklorist and author Jim Hoy has spent most of his life living in the heart of the famed Flint Hills of Kansas and documenting and celebrating his fellow Kansans and plains folk. Like rounding up stray cattle in a rolling pasture, Hoy has gathered over a hundred stray stories, tales without a single theme or unified narrative, and rounded them up here for the very first time. Branding these stories in sections like Cattle Towns, Outlaws, and Cowboy Music, Hoy's vignettes teach, excite, charm, and instill a deep pride in anyone fortunate enough to have lived on the Great Plains.
In Gathering Strays, Hoy gives us a collection of stories about Kansas, the Great Plains, and Western life that reflect his life-long love of the land, experience, and history of the region. Hoy introduces us to folks like Elmer McCurdy, a failed train robber whose arsenic-embalmed body went on tour and made money for the undertaker, and Ame Cole, who scolded Russian Grand Duke Alexis on his table manners. Writing as an easygoing storyteller, Hoy covers familiar areas like rodeos and cattle drives, takes us from Dodge City to Beer City and everywhere in between, explains why Kansas has the best state song in the nation, and expands our picture of cowboys with stories of Australian drovers, Black cowboys, and Mexican vaqueros.Throughout, his easy-to-read yet authoritative style describes the people, places, and events that make the region so distinctive and celebrated. Gathering Strays will be hailed by anyone interested in the heroes and villains, towns and ranges, and myths and legends of the West.
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Höhe: 228 mm
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978-0-7006-3410-1 (9780700634101)
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Jim Hoy is professor emeritus of English, Emporia State University, and director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies. Among his many books are My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America's Last Tallgrass Prairie, Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie, also from Kansas, and, with Tom Isern, Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains.
Preface and Acknowledgments
I. Cattle Towns
1. Abilene, Prototype of the Cow Town
2. Joe McCoy's Buffalo Stunt
3. Bloody Newton
4. Hell Is in Session in Ellsworth
5. Wild times in Ellsworth: Later Edition
6. Wichita: The Rowdy Family (Joe and Kate)
7. Wichita: Hurricane Bill Martin
8. Caldwell: The Border Queen
9. Dodge City: Queen of the Cow Towns
10. Trail City and Coolidge
11. Elgin, the Last Cow Town
II. Outlaws
12. Outlaws
12. Outlaws
13. An Armless Horse Thief
14. The Reno Gang: America's First Train Robbers
15. The Fleagle Gang
16. The Short Life and Long Afterlife of Elmer McCurdy
17. Bootlegging
18, Jesse James
19. Tiger Bill
20. James Dalton
21. Dutch Henry
22. The Marlow Brothers
23. Femme Fatale
24. Sam Purple
25. West Texas Justice
III. The Cowboy
26. The Origin of the Cowboy
27. The Cowboy as Symbol
28. the Cowboy as Hero
29. Black Cowboys
30. Boots, Hats, and Leather Leggings
31. A Letter from a Wyoming Cowboy to His Mother in Kansas
IV. Trailing Cattle
32. The Goodnight-Loving Trail
33. Nelson Story's Cattle Drive
34. The Chisholm Trail
35. The Log of a Cowboy
36. Texas-to-Kansas Cattle Drives
37. Prairie Cattle Company Roundup
V. Other Cowboys
38. The Mexican Vaquero
39. Gaucho Rodeo
40. Sabanero de Costariccens
41. Estancia Los Potreros
42. Celtic Cowboys
43. Jack Sammon, Australian Drover
VI. Rodeo
44. The Early Days of Rodeo
45. Going Down the Road
46. The First Indoor Rodeo
47. The First Bulldogger
48. Clay McGonagill, Steer Roper
49. Rodeo Bulls
50. The Belgrade Bull
51. Homer Venters, Rodeo Photographer
52. Shoat
53. Floyd Rumford
54. Buddy Heaton
55. Ranch Rodeo
VII. Cowboy Music 56. Singing Cowboys and Cowboy Songs
57. The Old Chisholm Trail
58. Folk Songs and Fire
59. The Lane County Bachelor
60. Home on the Range
61. Buck Ramsey
62. Carson Robison and the Queen of England
VIII. People 63. The Inimitable Henry Mudge
64. The Abernathy Boys
65. Lon Ford
66. Mary Elizabeth Haley
67. Ranicky Bill
68. Boney Joe
69. Cannonball Green
70. The Pony Express and Three Kansas Riders
71. Ame Cole, Frontiersman 72. Buffalo Bill
73. Jack McFall
74. Charlie Goodnight, Uncle Frank, My Son, and the Chuck Wagon
75. Ed Whitney
76. Landon Carter Haynes
77. Faye Gaines, Rancher
78. Ralph Bowlby and Flashaway
79. The Pilgrim Bard
80. Cattle Drives, Grasshoppers, Buffalo, and Indian Scares: The Memories of Alfred Bradshaw
81. Badger Clark
82. Fred Schouten
IX. Places
83. El Quartelejo
84. Beer City
85. Russell Springs and the Butterfield Overland Despatch
86. Smokey Valley Ranch 87. Cyclone Day in Codell
88. The Pig Pen Ranch
X. Happenings
89. A Prairie Burial
90. The Dewey-Berry Feud
91. The Cowboy War in Kansas
92. American Indians and the Santa Fe Trail
93. The Legend of Indian Hill
94. A Flying Saucer
XI. Animals
95. Armadillos
96. Bear Tales
97. Crow Hop
98. Locusts
99. Monkey Business
100. Rattlesnake Stores
101. Longhorns, Texas and English
102. The Murder Steer
103. The Saga of Black Kettle
104. Wolves
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