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Grinnell's books and publications reflect his lifelong learnings about the ways of northern American plains and the Plains tribes. Along with J. A. Allen and William T. Hornaday , Grinnell was a historian of the buffalo and their relationship to Plains tribal culture.
Without abundant buffalo, the southern Plains Indians had no means of self-support. By the winter of 1873–1874, the southern Plains Indians were in crisis. The reduction of the buffalo herds combined with increasing numbers of new settlers and more aggressive military patrols had put them in an unsustainable position.
Flores is the author of thirteen books. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America (New York: W.W. Norton, 2022). Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (New York: Basic/Perseus, 2016) American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016)
In American English, both buffalo and bison are considered correct terms for the American bison. [16] However, in British English, the word buffalo is reserved for the African buffalo and water buffalo and not used for the bison. [17] In English usage, the term buffalo was used to refer to the American mammal as early as 1625. [18]
The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles (360,000 km 2) of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison ("buffalo"), that once grazed the shortgrass prairie.
Although colloquially referred to as a buffalo in the United States and Canada, [2] it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the generally more northern wood bison, B. b. athabascae.
Three other books of her Great Plains series, The Buffalo Hunters (1954), one of her best known, and The Cattlemen (1958) and The Beaver Men (1964) each develop the history of the West in relation to an animal species. Sandoz liked to encourage other writers.
The Crow Indian Buffalo Hunt diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum. A group of images by Eadweard Muybridge, set to motion to illustrate the animal's movement. Bison hunting (hunting of the American bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo) was an activity fundamental to the economy and society of the Plains Indians peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of ...