Buffalo nation : history and legend of the North American bison
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Geist, Valerius
- Publisher
- Stillwater, MN : Voyageur Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G27b
- Author
- Geist, Valerius
- Publisher
- Stillwater, MN : Voyageur Press
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 144 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
- Abstract
- Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts. --Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Preface : the buffalo : symbol of North America -- Introduction : wild things in wild places -- ch. 1. Origins of the buffalo -- ch. 2. The hunter and the hunted -- ch. 3. Extermination of the bison -- ch. 4. The rise of the phoenix.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0896583139
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 07.2 G27b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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