A.J. Bolinger (1881-1977) offers today's reader a deeply felt memoir with keen insights and thoughtful commentary that is by turns startlingly progressive and deeply conservative. He offers us a richer understanding of life on the prairies and plains of the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century.

Kansas Boy offers the twenty-first century reader delightful and revealing insights about life at a transitional moment in American history that Bolinger describes as "bursting with energy, wild with ambition."