David A. Dary is Professor of Journalism and Director of the H. H. Herbert School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma Norman.
Listed in: Nature · History · Western Americana
The Buffalo Book
The Full Saga of the American Animal
By David A. Dary
The journals and memoirs of 19th century explorers and travelers in the American West often told of viewing buffalo massed together as far as the eye could see. This book appropriately covers the subject of the buffalo as extensively as that animal covered the plains. Other recent accounts of the buffalo have focused on two or three aspects, emphasizing its natural history, the hunters and the hunted in prehistoric time, the relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian.
