[PDF] The Buffalo Hunters eBook

Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803258839

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In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book. Mari Sandoz's canvas is vast, but it is charged with color and excitement—accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, famous frontier characters (Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, Buffalo Bill, Sheridan, Custer, and Indian Chiefs Whistler, Yellow Wolf, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull).

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American bison
ISBN :

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Nomads of the great plains, the ways of family and clan, a bounty from the wild beast, the timeless cycle of ceremony.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1988
Category : American bison
ISBN : 9780823411597

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More than 30 paintings and drawings by artist-adventurers who traveled West in the 1800s illustrate Freedman's vivid account of the Great Plains Indians' buffalo hunts.

Author : Don Russell
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258915193

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This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.

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Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781933316390

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Presents a history of tipis, describing the different ways in which they were constructed, the many symbolic designs used to decorate them, and the practical and spiritual significance they had in the lives of Native Americans.

Author : Charles M. Robinson
Publisher : TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9781880510193

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The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains by countless millions but which had been hunted to near-oblivion within thirty-five years, is one of the most exciting yet tragic stories of American history. Charles M. Robinson III dramatically relates this tale with both vivid, brilliantly researched text and with evocative photographs and illustrations. From the 18th century French fur traders, through the American industrial revolution with its demand for leather, and ending with the final sad hunts of the mid-1880s, Robinson eloquently and graphically describes all aspects of the hunt and the hunters, including the Indians for whom the destruction of their subsistence resulted in their own destruction. Here are the hunters such as Custer, Cody and the Mooars, and the rough and tumble towns that hides built--Adobe Walls, Buffalo Gap, Dodge City, and Fort Griffin. A wealth of photographs, including rare reproductions of the long-lost glass plates of photographer George Robertson taken during an 1874 hunt, and the photographs of L.A. Huffman in the early 1880s, illustrate this exciting volume of Western Americana.

Author : Laura Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Children's writings, American.
ISBN : 9780933849570

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Although the scouts could not locate any buffalo, a young Dakota Indian girl finds an enormous herd just in time for the last big hunt before the winter.

Author : Frank H. Mayer
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 1958
Category : American bison
ISBN :

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The experiences of Mayer as a buffalo hunter.

Author : Norbert Welsh
Publisher : Saskatoon : Fifth House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1994
Category : American bison
ISBN : 9781895618389

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Anecdotes from an oral account of the old North-West by a Métis hunter and trader, Norbert Welsh, who lived through the end times of the buffalo and the early white settlement of the prairies, interacted with men such as Chief Starblanket and Louis Riel, witnessed rituals like the Sun Dance and told how men travelled and lived toward the end of the 19th century in the land that became Saskatchewan.