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Buffalo Tales: The Near-Extermination of the American Bison
Shepard Krech III, Brown University
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Works Cited

Bergon, Frank, ed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. New York: Viking, 1989.

Dary, David. The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989.

Ewers, John C. The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958.

Flores, Dan. "Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800-1850," Journal of American History 78:2 (Sept. 1991).

Haines, Francis. The Buffalo: The Story of American Bison and Their Hunters from Prehistoric Times to the Present. (New York: Crowell, 1970); Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Isenberg, Andrew. The Destruction of the Bison: Social and Ecological Changes in the Great Plains, 1750-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Krech, Shepard, III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: Norton, 1999.

McHugh, Tom. The Time of the Buffalo. New York: Knopf, 1972.

Medicine Crow, Joseph. From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians' Own Stories. New York: Orion Books, 1992.


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