TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duncan,Dayton
AU  - Burns,Ken
AU  - Mosher,Emily
AU  - Shumaker,Susan
AU  - Hinders,Maggie
TI  - Blood memory: the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo 
SN  - 9780593537343
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - American bison
KW  - Great Plains
KW  - History
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - American bison hunting
KW  - Conservation
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - 1860-1890
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Local histories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Place of publication from publisher's website; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- A Death Wind for My People -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine
N2  - "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst"--
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