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From the days when approximately sixty million bison ranged over most of the continental U.S. and into Canada and Mexico, to its near extinction due to mindless slaughter during the westward expansion of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, the American bison remains both a national symbol of strength and freedom, and of shame and exploitation.
Today the American bison once again is in the center of controversy over its role in our economy, its range, and its very right to exist in the wild.
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Danz offers an interesting and accurate record of the fate of the bison in North America. Many readers will be amazed by the map of the bison's range prior to the advent of European settlers to the continent. Danz reviews the various subspecies of bison on both the European Continent and in North America, very useful to the general readers for whom this volume is designed. He then deals with the question of how many bison there were on the North American continent. A nice review follows of how Native Americans related to bison in their everyday lives. Bison predators and Native American hunting are also well reviewed. Danz then discusses slaughter of the bison, their recovery from near extinction, the current industry for production of bison products, the role of the public sector in the preservation of bison today, and the future of bison. The illustrations are interesting and add significantly to the descriptive material. This book, filled with factual information, will be most useful to general readers, lower-division undergraduate students, and two-year technical program students. D. W. Kitchen Humboldt State University