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Jim Hoy 1939-2025 Dr. James F. (Jim) Hoy was 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 lived in the Flint Hills area all of his life—except for graduate school in Missouri and a teaching stint in Idaho. Jim was a folklorist and fifth-generation Flint Hills rancher who could be found cowboying, on son Josh's ranch, into his eighties. Among Jim's dozen or so books are Cowboys and Kansas, Flint Hills Cowboys, Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range, My Flint Hills, Plains Folk, and Gathering Strays: Stories from Kansas and the Southwestern Plains. Jim was a very special friend to Emil Redmon's Cow. Without his encouragement and mentorship, it is unlikely that the project would have grown beyond the first few interviews. Jim passed away on February 23, 2025. 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 Jim at work on the Flying W Ranch Clements, Kansas, 2020—Jim was 81 at the time. Return to the Index