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Author Punke, Michael.

Title Last stand : George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth of the new West / Michael Punke.

Publication Info. New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.

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 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  599.643 PUNKE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  599.643 PUNKE    Check Shelf
Edition First Smithsonian Books edition.
Description xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938.
American bison -- Conservation -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
ISBN 9780060897826
0060897821
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