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Heads, Hides and Horns : The Complete Buffalo Book /
This thoroughly researched and superbly written book combines history, myth, folklore, and fiction to tell the story not only of the buffalo but of the relationship between buffalo and man on the North American continent. Synthesizing larger and longer histories of this unique animal, this book trac...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fort Worth :
Texas Christian University Press,
1985.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Barsness, Larry. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Heads, Hides and Horns : |b The Complete Buffalo Book / |c by Larry Barsness ; with a foreword by Ron Tyler. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Fort Worth : |b Texas Christian University Press, |c 1985. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2014 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1985. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a This thoroughly researched and superbly written book combines history, myth, folklore, and fiction to tell the story not only of the buffalo but of the relationship between buffalo and man on the North American continent. Synthesizing larger and longer histories of this unique animal, this book traces the history of the buffalo from the time it led man to North America, fed him, clothed him, and housed him. As buffalo increased in numbers, they became central to the culture of the Great Plains Indians who lived surrounded by them. Much of the Indian way of life was related to knowledge of. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a American bison. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00806966 | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement II | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement II | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Native American and Indigenous Studies Supplement | ||