Heads, hides & horns the compleat buffalo book /
Heads, hides and horns
by Larry Barsness ; with a foreword by Ron Tyler.
- Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, (c)1985.
- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- The effect of buffalo on land and man -- Nature and numbers of the buffalo -- Origins of the buffalo -- The buffalo year -- Hunting the buffalo on foot -- Hunting the buffalo on horseback -- The addiction of the horseback chase -- Buffalo : the Indian's manna -- Buffalo myth and medicine -- The Indian, the fur trader, and the buffalo -- Plinking at buffalo : the thing to do -- The hide hunter -- Shooting the last of them -- Relics : buffalo bones and starving Indians -- Collecting for posterity -- Poachers -- Fenced buffalo herds -- The catalo -- White man's folklore -- Buffalo as surplus -- The buffalo today.
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