Record details

• ISBN: 0394476182
• ISBN: 9780394476186
• Physical Description: xxiv, 339, xi p. illus. 25 cm.
• Edition: [1st ed.]
• Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1972.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Based on the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. 321-339.

Formatted Contents Note:

Buffalo culture -- In numbers--numberless -- Grassland and buffalo -- Ancestors and relatives -- Early chronicles -- Preparation for the kill -- Indian hunting techniques -- Indians as consumers -- Place in symbolism and ceremony -- White buffalo -- Storytellers -- Days among the herds -- Nature of the beast -- Status in buffalo society -- Group travels -- Calving season -- Rutting season -- Play and aggression -- Grassland community -- Natural catastrophes -- Westward the hunters -- On the way to extinction -- Return to the plains -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Subject:

American bison.
Bison d'Amérique.