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Title:

Bison and people on the North American Great Plains : a deep environmental history / edited by Geoff Cunfer and Bill Waiser ; foreword by Sterling Evans.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Texas A & M University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American bison hunting--Great Plains--History.
American bison--Great Plains--History.
Indians of North America--Great Plains--History.
Human-animal relationships--Great Plains--History.
Nature--History.--Great Plains--History.
Environmental degradation--Great Plains--History.
Natural history--Great Plains.
Great Plains--History.
American bison.
American bison hunting.
Environmental degradation.
Human-animal relationships.
Indians of North America.
Natural history.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Great Plains.
History.

Other Authors:

Cunfer, Geoff, 1966- author. author.
Waiser, W. A., editor.
Cunfer, Geoff, 1966- Overview, the decline and fall of the bison empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 metis 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 North-West Territories Bison Protection Ordinance / Bill Waiser -- A rancher's view of the post-bison West: filling the vacuum / Matt Todd -- A Lakota view of pte oyate (buffalo nation) / David C. Posthumus -- Contributors.

Series:

Connecting the greater west

ISBN:

1623494745
9781623494742

OCLC:

(OCoLC)951507036

LCCN:

2016034101

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)