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The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga Of The American Animal

The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga Of The American Animal

Dary, David A.

Paperback

Series: Full Saga of the American Animal

AgricultureOther AnimalsRegional: West

ISBN10: 0804009317
ISBN13: 9780804009317
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: Dec 1 1989
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The journals and memoirs of nineteeth-century explorers and travelers in the American West often told of viewing buffalo massed together as far as the eye could see. This book appropriately covers the subject of the buffalo as extensively as that animal covered the plains. Other recent accounts of the buffalo have focused on two or three aspects, emphasizing its natural history, the hunters and the hunted in prehistoric time, the relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian. David Dary's treatment stretches from horizon to horizon. Of course he discusses the origin of the buffalo in North America, its locations and migrations, its habits, its significance and role in both Indian and white cultures, its near demise, its salvation. But more. Dary weaves throughout his fact-filled book fascinating threads of lore and legend of this animal that literally helped mold who and what America is. Further, in addition to detailing the extinction which almost befell this mythic beast and the attempts to give life again to the herds, Dary concentrates significant attention on the buffalo as part of America in terms of captivity, husbandry, and symbol.

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