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The border and the buffalo : an untold story of the southwest plains / a story of mountain and plain by John R. Cook.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cook, John R., 1844-1917, author.
Contributor:
Newberry Library, owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cook, John R., 1844-1917.
Cook, John R.
American bison hunting--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
American bison hunting.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895.
Indians of North America.
Pioneers--Southwest, New--Biography.
Pioneers.
Kansas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Kansas.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Underground movements.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 351, [1] pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Place of Publication:
Topeka, Kansas : Printed by Crane and Company, 1907.
Notes:
"The bloody border of Missouri and Kansas ; the story of the slaughter of the buffalo ; westward among the big game and wild tribes."
AMDigital Reference: Graff 864
Collection: Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
From the Colton Storm catalogue: "Border warfare between Missouri and Kansas and the slaughter of the buffalo are the principal subjects. Laid in is a four-page leaflet: [caption title] Address. To the Hunters After the Ninety Days' Scout...This twenty-seven stanza "poem" may have been written by Cook." Concerns the period c.1850-c.1880.

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