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Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521003482
This study, first published in 2000, examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American bison
ISBN : 1107720125
In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife that first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation."--Jacket.
Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547247906
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Extermination of the American Bison" by William T. Hornaday. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Andrew P. Patrick
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535862738
Gale Researcher Guide for: The Destruction of the Bison is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Author : Geoff Cunfer,Bill Waiser
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623494742
The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American frontier. But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison’s demise is actually quite nuanced. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from several disciplines to offer new insights on the relationship between humans and animals that approached extinction. The essays here transcend the border between the United States and Canada to provide a continental context. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and Native American perspectives. This book explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the nineteenth century bison reached a “tipping point” as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock. The book concludes with a Lakota perspective featuring new ethnohistorical research. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains is a major contribution to environmental history, western history, and the growing field of transnational history.
Author : George Colpitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107044906
Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272626
California is a contentious arena for the study of the Native American past. Some critics say genocide characterized the early conduct of Indian affairs in the state; others say humanitarian concerns. Robert F. Heizer, in the former camp, has compiled a damning collection of contemporaneous accounts that will provoke students of California history to look deeply into the state's record of race relations and to question bland generalizations about the adventuresome days of the Gold Rush. Robert F. Heizer's many works include the classic The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920 (1971), written with Alan Almquist. In his introduction, Albert L. Hurtado sets the documents in historical context and considers Heizer's influence on scholarship as well as the advances made since his death. A professor of history at Arizona State University, Hurtado is the author of Indian Survival on the California Frontier.
Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664164643
The Extermination of the American Bison by William T. Hornaday is an in-depth examination of the factors that led to the near-extinction of the American bison. Hornaday's thorough research, coupled with his passion for wildlife conservation, make this book an essential read for those interested in the history of the American West, wildlife preservation, and environmental issues.
Author : Tom McHugh
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0803281056
Discusses the natural history of the American buffalo and its crucial role in the life of the Great Plains Indian
Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798586764553
The Extermination of the American Bison is a book by William Temple Hornaday first published in 1889. It was reprinted from a report Hornaday wrote for the Smithsonian Institution in the years 1886-87.Extermination contains an exhaustive account of bison ecology and the story of the near-entire destruction of the bison population in the United States. The book argues for the consequent necessity of protecting the small number of bison then in Yellowstone National Park.
Author : Keith Aune,Glenn Plumb
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439666845
This history chronicles the 19th century plan to reintroduce wild bison into Western Montana and the rise of Roosevelt’s conservation movement. In the late 1800s, the rapid depletion of the American bison population prompted calls for the preservation of wildlife and wild lands in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to immortalize the West's most iconic species. Activists like Theodore Roosevelt rose to the call, initiating a restoration plan that seemed almost incomprehensible in that era. This thoroughly researched history follows the ambitious project from the first animals bred at the Bronx Zoo to today's National Bison Range. Glenn Plumb, a former chief wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, and Keith Aune, the former Wildlife Conservation Society director of bison programs, demonstrate how the success of bison repopulation bolstered Roosevelt's broader conservation efforts.
Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496203045
A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O’Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research and decades of personal experience, he details not only the natural history of the bison but also its prominent symbolism in Native American culture and its rise as an icon of the Great Plains. Great Plains Bison is a tribute to the bison’s essential place at the heart of the North American prairie and its ability to inspire naturalists and wildlife advocates in the fight to preserve American biodiversity.
Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700624669
America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory—and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty "flyover country" of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old—a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals—including bison, wild horses, and coyotes—American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder—the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage.
Author : Ekkehart Malotki,Michael Lomatuway'ma,Lorena Lomatuway'ma,Sidney Namingha
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803282834
"The tales concern such villages as Sikyatki, Hisatsongoopavi, and Awat'ovi, which were destroyed by war, fire, earthquake, or internal strife. Though abandoned for centuries, they live in memory, reminders of ancient tragedies and enmities that changed the Hopis forever. Related by storytellers from Second and Third Mesa, these tales vividly describe village destruction and show how much human evils such as witchcraft, hubris, corruption and betrayal of fundamental values can precipitate social disintegration and chaos."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michelle Nijhuis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781324001690
Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine "At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis’s “spirited and engaging” account documents “the changes of heart that changed history” (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe). With “urgency, passion, and wit” (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own.