Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. Michael Punke

Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West - Michael  Punke


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      Published by The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by The Borough Press 2016

      Originally published in 2007 by Collins and Smithsonian Books

      Copyright © Michael Punke 2007

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com

      Michael Punke asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008189341

      Ebook Edition © February 2016 ISBN: 9780008189358

      Version: 2016-02-18

       Dedication

       For Sophie and Bo:

      May your children’s children see wild buffalo on the plains.

       Epigraph

      Motionless, with head thrown back,

      and in an attitude of attention,

      he calmly inspected the vessel floating along below him;

      so beautiful an object amid his wild surroundings,

      and with his background of brilliant sky,

      that no hand was stretched out for the rifle …

      There is one spot left,

      a single rock about which this tide will break,

      and past which it will sweep, leaving it undefiled

      by the unsightly traces of civilization.

       George Bird Grinnell

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       Six: “That Will Mean an Indian War”

       Seven: “Ere Long Exterminated”

       Eight: “A Weekly Journal”

       Nine: “No Longer a Place for Them”

       Ten: “Blundering, Plundering”

       Eleven: “The Meanest Work I Ever Did”

       Twelve: “A Terror to Evil-Doers”

       Thirteen: “A Single Rock”

       Fourteen: “For All It Is Worth”

       Fifteen: “Simple Majesty”

       EPILOGUE: The Last Stand — “Something Unprecedented”

       NOTES

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ALSO BY MICHAEL PUNKE

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       Maps

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      The West of the Buffalo and George Bird Grinnell.

      Courtesy of the Library of Congress,


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