Title:
Last stand : George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth of the new West / Michael Punke.
ISBN:
9780062970091
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Edition:
First Harper Perennial Paperback.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperPerennial, 2020.
©2007, 2020
Physical Description:
xxi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in 2007 by Smithsonian Books"--Title page.
Contents:
Stand -- Why George Bird Grinnell matters today -- "Wild and Wooly" -- "Self-Denial" -- "Barbarism Pure and Simple" -- "I Felled a Mighty Bison" -- "The Guns of Other Hunters" -- "That Will Mean an Indian War" -- "Ere Long Exterminated" -- "A Weekly Journal" -- "No Longer a Place For Them" -- Blundering, Plundering" -- "The Meanest Work I Ever Did" -- "A Terror to Evil-Doers" -- "A Single Rock" -- "For All It Is Worth" -- "Simple Majesty" -- Last stand - "Something Unprecedented".
Summary:
The epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.
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OCLC Number:
on1124787894
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