The Buffalo: The Story of American Bison and Their Hunters From Prehistoric Times to the Present

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use material from the following sources:

Columbia University Press, New York.

Gold Rush, by J. Goldsborough Bruff, edited by Georgia W. Read and Ruth Gaines, 1949, pp. 17, 18, and 25.

William W. Whitney, California Historical Society,

The Journal of Madison Berryman Moorman, edited by Irene D. Paden, 1948.

Pictures were obtained through the courtesy of the following:

Mary K. Dempsy, Montana Historical Society, furnished photographs of Montana Buffalo.

Beatrice Boone, Office of Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sent the pictures of the modern herds.

Mary S. McLanahan, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, supplied photographs of the paintings of Alfred Jacob Miller.

John C. Ewers and William Truettner, of the Smithsonian Institution, furnished the photographs of the pictures by George Catlin.

(U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries & Wildlife)

When this book first appeared, in 1970, no other book devoted to the buffalo had been published for more than ten years. The resurgence of interest in wildlife and the back-to-nature movement that started on college campuses during the late 1960s may have been responsible, in part, for the renewed interest in the American bison, commonly called the buffalo. That interest continues today with people seeking knowledge about this truly American animal. Such a curiosity was not strong, however, during the first sixty years of the nineteenth century. The educated remained chairbound in the East, content to accept as final the stories, legends, and tales of the frontiersmen. Unfortunately, most frontiersmen were not well educated and possessed little scientific training. Often their stories contained more fiction than fact.

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