For about as long as he can remember, Kansas City native Bob Sullivan dreamed of being a cowboy. At the age of 19 he met and began working for Grant Beck at the Two Bar Spear Ranch in Pinedale, Wyoming, which had a lasting impact on the author’s life. His experiences in Wyoming, and subsequent relationship with Grant over the next thirty years, inspired Bob to share Grant’s remarkable life with others.

For Bob's first book on the history of beer and brewing in Kansas City entitled Hometown Beer,