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""A well written, carefully researched study of a facet of the West that has not been as successfully treated previously.""--Journal of the West ""Hoy has provided a broad history of the development of the cattle guard and its effect on rural life in the Great Plains.""--Great Plains Quarterly ""Hoy has written a readable book on a previously neglected topic of agricultural/plains history. The definitive work on this subject.""--Nebraska History ""Hoy tells the story in meticulous detail, with style and rural humor.""--Arizona Highways ""This well-written volume reflects both the author's extensive research conducted in the United States and England and personal fascination with the topic.""--Arizona and the West

"""A well written, carefully researched study of a facet of the West that has not been as successfully treated previously.""--Journal of the West ""Hoy has provided a broad history of the development of the cattle guard and its effect on rural life in the Great Plains.""--Great Plains Quarterly ""Hoy has written a readable book on a previously neglected topic of agricultural/plains history. The definitive work on this subject.""--Nebraska History ""Hoy tells the story in meticulous detail, with style and rural humor.""--Arizona Highways ""This well-written volume reflects both the author's extensive research conducted in the United States and England and personal fascination with the topic.""--Arizona and the West"

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Jim Hoy is professor emeritus of English at Emporia State University, where he also directed Center for Great Plains Studies. Hoy is the author of numerous books about cowboy life, including Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie and My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie.

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