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Jim Hoy Jim Hoy is a Professor Emeritus of English and Director Emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State Univirsity, Emporia, Kansas. Reared on a stock ranch near Cassoday, Kansas, he has lived in the Flint Hills area all of his life except for graduate school in Missouri and a teaching stint in Idaho. Jim is a folklorist and fifth-generation Flint Hills rancher who can still be found cowboying on son Josh's Flying W Ranch. Among Jim's dozen books are Cowboys and Kansas, Flint Hills Cowboys, Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range, The Flint Hills, and Prairie Fire. Mark Feiden and Farrell Hoy visited with Jim at the Flying H Ranch outside of Cassoday, Kansas, on January 19, 2020. Buckshot 16:18 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Holding the Cut 19:42 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Slocky's Rope 02:31 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 The Cowboy's Lament 06:11 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Two Fools 04:45 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Bill Young's Beer Joint 05:43 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 The Brand 02:01 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Flint Hills Grass 07:51 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Yearlings 06:55 Cassoday, Kansas, 2020 Interviewed for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Magazine Emporia, Kansas, 2020 Return to the Index