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Bison and people on the North American Great Plains : a deep environmental history / edited by Geoff Cunfer and Bill Waiser ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Connecting the greater west series
- Connecting the greater west
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American bison hunting--Great Plains--History.
- American bison hunting.
- American bison--Great Plains--History.
- American bison.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--History.
- Indians of North America.
- History.
- Natural history.
- Environmental degradation.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Great Plains.
- Human-animal relationships--Great Plains--History.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Great Plains--History.
- Nature.
- Environmental degradation--Great Plains--History.
- Natural history--Great Plains.
- Great Plains--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer
- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores
- People and bison in the ancient past
- A bison's view of landscape and the paleoenvironment / Alwynne B. Beaudoin
- A hunter's quest for fat bison / Jack W. Brink
- An overview of prehistoric communal bison hunting on the Great Plains / Ernest G. Walker
- Acceleration: European contact and the horse revolution
- A fur trade historian's view of seasonal bison movement on the Northern Plains / Ted Binnema
- A horse-man's view of a grassland revolution / Elliott West
- A métis view of the summer market hunt on the Northern Plains / George Colpitts
- Tipping point: nineteenth-century cataclysm
- A tanner's view of the bison hunt: global tanning and industrial leather / Jennifer Hansen
- A legislator's view of bison collapse: the 1877 Northwest Territories bison protection ordinance / Bill Waiser
- A rancher's view of the post-bison West: filling the vacuum / Matt Todd
- A Lakota view of pté oyáte (buffalo nation) / David C. Posthumus
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Cunfer, Geoff, 1966- Overview, the decline and fall of the bison empire.
- ISBN:
- 9781623494742
- 1623494745
- OCLC:
- 951507036
- Publisher Number:
- 99969661997
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