A Piece of Kansas Soil

“Nobody understood it. Nobody. My love for a piece of Kansas soil was only shared by those who were long buried in it.”


Jim Cossaart was a windmill repairman, a blacksmith’s apprentice, a tractor salesman, a rancher, and a farmer, who eventually became a dentist. Jim’s prairie home has been in his family for six generations. Surviving dust storms, tornadoes, the farm crisis of the 1980s, and near bankruptcy, his farm still stands as a symbol of the tenacity of the tall grass prairie itself. These beautifully composed stories of the Great Plains, filled with suspense, redemption, love, and barely believable characters, provide the backdrop for the author’s personal struggles to preserve both the land and his relationship to it.