Last stand : George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth of the new West / Michael Punke.
Punke, Michael.
2007
QH31.G74 P86 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Last stand : George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth of the new West / Michael Punke.
Author Punke, Michael.
Edition 1st Smithsonian Books ed.
ISBN 9780060897826
0060897821
Imprint New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.
Language English
Description xvi, 286 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number QH31.G74 P86 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.64/3092
B
Summary Traces the efforts of a late-nineteenth-century environmentalist who sought to protect buffalo that were being systematically slaughtered by out-of-work Civil War veterans promoting "manifest destiny" settlements in the West.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue : The stand
1. Wild and wooly
2. Self-denial
3. Barbarism pure and simple
4. I felled a mighty bison
5. The guns of other hunters
6. That will mean an Indian War
7. Ere long exterminated
8. A weekly journal
9. No longer a place for them
10. Blundering, plundering
11. The meanest work I ever did
12. A terror to evil-doers
13. A single rock
14. For all it is worth
15. Simple majesty
Epilogue : The last stand - "Something unprecedented"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.

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