02304cam a2200385 i 4500 1011201229 TxAuBib 20231017120000.0 u 230616s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593537343 hardcover 0593537343 hardcover TxAuBib rda Duncan, Dayton, author. Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo. Blood memory. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent z rdamedia zu rdacarrier The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would berescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different-and sometimes competing-impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era-a story of America at its very best and worst. 20231017. American bison Great Plains History. American bison Conservation West (U.S.) History 1860-1890. Indians of North America. Human-animal relationships. American bison hunting. Nature Effect of human beings on. Burns, Ken, 1953-, author. BSBPL