The Buffalo Hunters
Title | The Buffalo Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Mari Sandoz |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1978-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803258839 |
In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book. Mari Sandoz's canvas is vast, but it is charged with color and excitement—accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, famous frontier characters (Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, Buffalo Bill, Sheridan, Custer, and Indian Chiefs Whistler, Yellow Wolf, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull).
The Buffalo Hunters
Title | The Buffalo Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | American bison |
ISBN |
Nomads of the great plains, the ways of family and clan, a bounty from the wild beast, the timeless cycle of ceremony.
Buffalo Hunt
Title | Buffalo Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Freedman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | American bison |
ISBN | 9780823411597 |
More than 30 paintings and drawings by artist-adventurers who traveled West in the 1800s illustrate Freedman's vivid account of the Great Plains Indians' buffalo hunts.
The Last Buffalo Hunter
Title | The Last Buffalo Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Jake Mosher |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781567922264 |
Set in Montana the story revolves around a reticent but articulate teenager who spends his fourteenth summer, remanded to the not so gentle care of his profane and outrageous grandfather, Cole, who seems to be waging an unsuccessful one man war against a whole army of fools.
Tipi
Title | Tipi PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | World Wisdom, Inc |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781933316390 |
Presents a history of tipis, describing the different ways in which they were constructed, the many symbolic designs used to decorate them, and the practical and spiritual significance they had in the lives of Native Americans.
Sioux Buffalo Hunters
Title | Sioux Buffalo Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Don Russell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258915193 |
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
The Buffalo Hunters
Title | The Buffalo Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Charles M. Robinson |
Publisher | TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781880510193 |
The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains by countless millions but which had been hunted to near-oblivion within thirty-five years, is one of the most exciting yet tragic stories of American history. Charles M. Robinson III dramatically relates this tale with both vivid, brilliantly researched text and with evocative photographs and illustrations. From the 18th century French fur traders, through the American industrial revolution with its demand for leather, and ending with the final sad hunts of the mid-1880s, Robinson eloquently and graphically describes all aspects of the hunt and the hunters, including the Indians for whom the destruction of their subsistence resulted in their own destruction. Here are the hunters such as Custer, Cody and the Mooars, and the rough and tumble towns that hides built--Adobe Walls, Buffalo Gap, Dodge City, and Fort Griffin. A wealth of photographs, including rare reproductions of the long-lost glass plates of photographer George Robertson taken during an 1874 hunt, and the photographs of L.A. Huffman in the early 1880s, illustrate this exciting volume of Western Americana.