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Title Bison and people on the North American Great Plains : a deep environmental history / edited by Geoff Cunfer and Bill Waiser ; foreword by Sterling Evans.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Connecting the greater west
Connecting the greater west series.
Note Includes 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 view of seasonal bison movement on the Northern Plains / Ted Binnema -- A horse-man's view of a grassland revolution / Elliott West -- A metis 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 pte oyáte (buffalo nation) / David C. Posthumus -- Contributors.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Natural history -- Great Plains.
Natural history.
Great Plains.
Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History.
Environmental degradation.
History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.
Human-animal relationships.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History.
Indians of North America.
American bison -- Great Plains -- History.
American bison.
American bison hunting -- Great Plains -- History.
American bison hunting.
Great Plains -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Waiser, Bill, 1953- editor.
Cunfer, Geoff, 1966- editor, author.
Cunfer, Geoff, 1966- Overview, the decline and fall of the bison empire.
Other Form: Print version: Bison and people on the North American Great Plains. First edition. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016] 9781623494742 1623494745 (DLC) 2016034101 (OCoLC)951507036
ISBN 1623494753
9781623494759 (electronic book)
9781623494742
1623494745