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Author Duncan, Dayton, author.

Title Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo / Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan, with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - New Materials  599.643 DUNCAN, DAYTON    DUE 04-08-24
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Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.
Summary "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different-and sometimes competing-impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era-a story of America at its very best and worst"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject American bison hunting -- Great Plains -- History.
American bison (OCoLC)fst00806966
American bison -- Conservation -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
West United States (OCoLC)fst01243255
Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.
American bison -- Great Plains -- History.
Indians of North America (OCoLC)fst00969633
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains -- History.
Subject Great Plains (OCoLC)fst01240567
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.
American bison hunting (OCoLC)fst00806977
Genre/Form History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on (OCoLC)fst01034564
Chronological Term 1860-1890
Subject Human-animal relationships (OCoLC)fst00963482
Added Author Burns, Ken, 1953- writer of introduction.
Mosher, Emily, researcher.
Shumaker, Susan, researcher.
Hinders, Maggie, designer.
Added Title Tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo
Based on (work): American Buffalo (Television program : 2023)
ISBN 9780593537343 (hardcover)
0593537343 (hardcover)
9780593537350 (ebook)
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