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Buffalo heartbeats across the plains : the last great hunts and saving the buffalo / Francie M. Berg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hettinger, ND : Dakota Buttes Visitors Council, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 254 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780918532862
  • 0918532868
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Part I: The last great hunts. The great Hiddenwood hunt -- Beautiful spot: Hiddenwood Cliff -- Winter hunt in Slim Buttes -- Sitting Bull hunt -- The final buffalo hunts -- Scattered survivors -- Theodore Roosevelt on 1883 hunt -- Part II: Tradition and lore. The magnificent buffalo -- Plains buffalo versus wood buffalo -- Noble fathers -- Buffalo lore -- Way of the hunt -- Traditional uses of buffalo -- Running the buffalo -- Part III: Coming home. Saving the buffalo -- Mexican bullfight -- Buffalo ranching across America -- Low stress buffalo handling -- Homecoming on Tribal Lands -- Restoring the buffalo -- Herds in public places -- White Cloud dynasty -- Buffalo timeline.
Summary: Over 30 million buffalo grazed the rich grasslands of the great plains and prairies of North America. Then, nearly 140 years ago -- from 1880 to 1883 -- they made their last stand in the region between Hettinger, North Dakota, and Lemmon, Bison, and Buffalo, South Dakota. This companion to Dakota Buttes Visitors Council's self-guided tour book, Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes, gives a boarder, in-depth report of ancient hunting methods, the buffalo's origin and behavior, maternal dominance, the tenderness of 'noble fathers' who saved newborn calves from wolves, and a herd bull's challenge to a fiery Mexican fighting bull. The pages come alive with a wealth of material on the relationship between Native Americans and buffalo, along with the latest advice from buffalo ranchers on low-stress handling.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Not for Loan Not for Loan Main Library North Dakota Collection 978 B493 Not for loan 33111009183332
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-242) and index.

Part I: The last great hunts. The great Hiddenwood hunt -- Beautiful spot: Hiddenwood Cliff -- Winter hunt in Slim Buttes -- Sitting Bull hunt -- The final buffalo hunts -- Scattered survivors -- Theodore Roosevelt on 1883 hunt -- Part II: Tradition and lore. The magnificent buffalo -- Plains buffalo versus wood buffalo -- Noble fathers -- Buffalo lore -- Way of the hunt -- Traditional uses of buffalo -- Running the buffalo -- Part III: Coming home. Saving the buffalo -- Mexican bullfight -- Buffalo ranching across America -- Low stress buffalo handling -- Homecoming on Tribal Lands -- Restoring the buffalo -- Herds in public places -- White Cloud dynasty -- Buffalo timeline.

Over 30 million buffalo grazed the rich grasslands of the great plains and prairies of North America. Then, nearly 140 years ago -- from 1880 to 1883 -- they made their last stand in the region between Hettinger, North Dakota, and Lemmon, Bison, and Buffalo, South Dakota. This companion to Dakota Buttes Visitors Council's self-guided tour book, Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes, gives a boarder, in-depth report of ancient hunting methods, the buffalo's origin and behavior, maternal dominance, the tenderness of 'noble fathers' who saved newborn calves from wolves, and a herd bull's challenge to a fiery Mexican fighting bull. The pages come alive with a wealth of material on the relationship between Native Americans and buffalo, along with the latest advice from buffalo ranchers on low-stress handling.

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