The Buffalo Hunters, The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz

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The Buffalo Hunters,
The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition
by Mari Sandoz

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In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffalos in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880's the figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of the The Buffalo Hunters. Mari Sandoz's vast canvas is charged with color and excitement - accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, an famous frontier characters such as Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, Buffalo Bill, Sheriden, Custer, and Indian cheifs Whislter, Yellow Wolf, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

Book 1. The Republican Head

The Portentous Men of 'Sixty-seven
Lord of the Plains
A Revenge - and New Markets
Big Guns and a Roaring Blizzard
The Royal Hunt

Book 2 The Crossing of the Arkansas

Dodge City, the Daughter of the Hide Men
Southward into Indian Country
Attack on Adobe Walls
Toward the Brazos
Two Big Kills
Dead Men and Comanche Yells

Book 3 Retreat to the Staked Plains

The Eden of the Animals
The Time of the Flights

Book 4 The Northern Herd

Along the Winter Yellowstone
The End of the Dream

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