Bison and people on the North American Great Plains : a deep environmental history
American bison hunting American bison Environmental degradation Human-animal relationships Indians of North America Natural history Nature Great Plains e-böcker History
Texas A & M University Press
2016
First edition.
EISBN 9781623494759
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.
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.
