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