Jim Gray, Cowboy Historian
“Never Sell Yer Saddle”
Jim Gray, a fourth generation rancher, is 2003 Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame’s Cowboy Historian Inductee.
Gray’s Ranch, a cow/calf operation, is located near Geneseo. In 1990, he created the Legacy Trail, a self-guided auto tour for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which includes seventeen scenic and historic sites. Continuing to encourage the preservation of Kansas history, Gray started the Drovers Mercantile in 1995, as well as the C.O.W.B.O.Y. Society in 1996, which publishes the Kansas Cowboy newspaper six times a year.
In the fall of 2002, Jim Gray recorded “Around the Campfire with the Cowboy, Kansas Cattle Towns” as a way to promote and preserve the “cowboy way” of Kansas History.
“Never Sell Yer Saddle”
Jim Gray, a fourth generation rancher, is 2003 Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame’s Cowboy Historian Inductee.
Gray’s Ranch, a cow/calf operation, is located near Geneseo. In 1990, he created the Legacy Trail, a self-guided auto tour for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which includes seventeen scenic and historic sites. Continuing to encourage the preservation of Kansas history, Gray started the Drovers Mercantile in 1995, as well as the C.O.W.B.O.Y. Society in 1996, which publishes the Kansas Cowboy newspaper six times a year.
In the fall of 2002, Jim Gray recorded “Around the Campfire with the Cowboy, Kansas Cattle Towns” as a way to promote and preserve the “cowboy way” of Kansas History.
