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.
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