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Books are expensive; Heads, Hides & Horns is no exception. To some, Barsness reveals more than they might wish to know about the shaggy beasts (and those who hunted them), but these urbanites are not likely to purchase the book anyway. To read this book one has to have an abiding interest in buffalo, native tribes, white hunters and settlers, plains history, myth, and folklore. Barsness considers each of these facets and omits few details. Barsness (University of Montana) has meticulously compiled a fascinating social history of the plains-the focal point of which is the buffalo. In the process, he has augmented earlier studies (e.g., Frank Gilbert Roe's The North American Buffalo, 1951, 2nd ed. CH, Feb '71), adding insight into the relationship of buffalo to plains' culture. With black-and-white photographs throughout, the book is, indeed, expensive, but for the history buff, it is well worth it. College, university, and public libraries.-P.D. Travis, University of Kansas
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Although this book begins with explanations of the buffalo's origins and how it fits into the ecology of the plains, the focus of the book is principally on the relationship that existed between humans and the buffalo and how that relationship changed over the centuries as people shifted from hunting for survival to exterminating a perceived nuisance. Barsness chronicles this relationship in minute, fascinating detail, describing thoroughly the methods for hunting the buffalo, the myriad uses to which its parts were put, the roles the animal played in Indian myth and ritual, and the efforts made to preserve the animal from extinction. A thoroughly researched, amply illustrated, and well-written treatment. Frank Schroth, Technology Training Assocs., Cambridge, Mass. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Foreword | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xv |
The Effect of Buffalo on Land and Man | p. 1 |
Nature and Numbers of the Buffalo | p. 14 |
Origins of the Buffalo | p. 27 |
The Buffalo Year | p. 31 |
Hunting the Buffalo on Foot | p. 37 |
Hunting the Buffalo on Horseback | p. 49 |
The Addiction of the Horseback Chase | p. 58 |
Buffalo: The Indian's Manna | p. 65 |
Buffalo Myth and Medicine | p. 75 |
The Indian, the Fur Trader, and the Buffalo | p. 86 |
Plinking at Buffalo: The Thing To Do | p. 99 |
The Hide Hunter | p. 111 |
Shooting the Last of Them | p. 126 |
Relics: Buffalo Bones and Starving Indians | p. 133 |
Collecting for Posterity | p. 142 |
Poachers | p. 152 |
Fenced Buffalo Herds | p. 158 |
The Catalo | p. 173 |
White Man's Folklore | p. 180 |
Buffalo as Surplus | p. 186 |
The Buffalo Today | p. 192 |
Notes | p. 198 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 210 |
Index | p. 225 |