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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barsness, Larry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1985.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Indians of North America > Food.
American bison.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Bison d'Amerique.
Indians of North America > Food > West (U.S.)
West United States.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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