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A 1967 illustrated booklet detailing history & management aims of Uncle Sam's 18,541-acre wild bison range in western Montana. ... Read more

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A collection of traditional and heart healthy recipes specifically formulated for cooking Bison and Bufffalo ... Read more

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Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV), Ryrie Study Bible Edition, Red Letter Edition (words of Christ in red), with Bible study helps, Concordance and Maps. By focusing on Scripture, The Ryrie KJV Study Bible is designed to enhance a deeply personal study of God's Word. A comprehensive source containing 10,000 concise explanatory notes, in-text graphics, and thorough book outlines, extensive cross-references, expanded topical index and concordance, The Ryrie KJV Study Bible is a complete tool for anyone desiring to know God more intimately. ... Read more

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For millennia, Aboriginal hunters on the North American Plains usedtheir knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour to drive theirquarry over cliffs. Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major studyof the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before andafter European contact. By way of example, he draws on his 25 yearsexcavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta,Canada – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ... Read more

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Buffalo jumps in detail
This book is a well written and easy to understand book on buffalo jumps and on Head Smashed In bison jump in particular.The book explains the workings of a bison jump, from the construction of lanes to the jump itself, to the reasoning for the stone piles along the lanes, how the medicine was worked prior to the jump, and the interesting personal stories of how this archaeologist worked with the Blackfoot tribes to create the museum/interpretative center at HSI bison jump.
I found the book to be completely enjoyable, and one that I will refer back to often.Highly recommended by me! ... Read more

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The perfect guide
This was fun to read. For us it is history but for William Cody it is his time. Life as he knows it. Books like this help us know ourselves better.

One of the Best Reprints of Buffalo Bill's Autobiography
Like several other biographies of this legendary Plainsman, Scout, Buffalo Hunter and Indian Fighter of the American Frontier, this book is comprised mostly of a reprint of William F. Cody's own Autobiography. What makes it a better source than many of the other reprints of Buffalo Bill Cody's fascinating 1879 acount of his early life and adventures until he reached the age of thirty-four, this volume includes an excellent foreword by another noted author and historian of the Wild West, Don Russell. His foreword makes this first complete reprinting of the original autobiography much more understandable and provides additional valuable insights into the man who coined the term "Wild West." Buffalo BIll was, without any doubt, what we often refer to as "The Real McCoy." While Cody could spin a good tale too, he was modest and humble about his own adventures. Later historians have mostly authenticated, with only minor corrections, his scary-thrilling, matter-of-fact and plain spoken recollections of his life and adventures.This is a very good read and hard to put down until the very end of the book.

An Authentic Voice
Autobiographies are at the same time the best and the worst sources of life stories.You get the authentic voice, but that voice tells you only what it wants you to believe.Both these characteristics are particularly strong here because Cody's voice is such a distinctive one and because of his status as a supreme self-promoter.So this book will not give you the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but it will give you a real insight into the mind of a man who in many ways epitomizes the culture of the historic American West.Some of it may shock you; Cody describes how he shot a mule who had annoyed him by running away, and boasts of how he scalped his fallen enemies.Hardly the stuff of popular myth.If you want to know how the west was really won, then reading this book (some of it 'between the lines') will tell you much.

You can almost smell the buffalo cooking in the camp.
The Wild West was an even more heroic epoch than is commonly understood.While Buffalo Bill became a self-promoter, basic facts are clear: he was a superior plains guide and scout and Indian fighter.He really was the master hunter of buffalo from horseback.He was a Pony Express rider, with all that entailed.He was friends with Wild Bill, Custer, and other notables. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield (though sadly it was removed many years later because of a bureaucratic technicality of how he had been employed by the Army, not because of any change in the evaluation of the heroic deeds.

A most fascinating book.It gives one a different perspective to hear it from a participant.END ... Read more

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Buffalo Bill: Last of the Great Scouts is the entertaining and fascinating story of William F. Cody, known to millions for over a century as the legendary Buffalo Bill. Born in a log cabin in Iowa, he was a buffalo hunter, stagecoach driver, Pony Express rider, Civil War soldier, and a scout for the U.S. army before beginning his career as the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, which electrified audiences around the world from 1883 to 1917.

Bill’s sister, Helen Cody Wetmore, has written an affectionate biography that recalls fully both the man and the legend, his colorful personality and ironic wit, as well as his celebrated international status. Some of her anecdotes read like the dime novels they were probably based on, but others provide fascinating glimpses of frontier life. Before becoming a showman, Cody tried his luck as a land speculator, a hotelkeeper, and a justice of the peace. These pages also show the author herself growing up on the wild frontier. Humorous and informative, Buffalo Bill introduces us to an unforgettable and controversial figure in American frontier history.

This commemorative edition includes the full text of the original 1899 edition, a foreword and afterword by novelist Zane Grey, illustrations by Frederic Remington, E. W. Deming, and Rosa Bonheur from a rare 1903 edition, and an introduction by scholar Joy S. Kasson.

Helen Cody Wetmore was one of five sisters of Buffalo Bill and her book Buffalo Bill was often sold at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. Joy S. Kasson is chair of the American Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History. ... Read more

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Absolutely gorgeous color photographs by a premier wildlife photographer make this a very special book about the National Bison Range in Montana, and the text about bison, Native Americans, and ecology make it a must-have book for anyone interested in this enduring symbol of the West. ... Read more

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Spectacular book - Spectacular Place
I bought this book prior to an eight day trip to Montana, specifically to photograph wildlife in the National Bison Range. I had been there a couple of times in the past, but this time I came equieped to photograph the animals! We made 8 trips through the range at various times of the day during our vist to the area. The book was very helpful in planning those trips and the short hikes availabe in the range. Plus it is full of beautiful photographs for inspiration. The loop road through the range (a one way trip) on a dirt road was different every time we made the trip. We saw so much wildlife we captured over 1700 images. 160 miles travel on a dirt road seems like a lot, but it was well worth it! I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in visiting the National Bison Range as well as those who are simply interrested in a great book about a great place, and a hugely successful conservation effort.

Especially recommended as a giftbook for nature lovers.
Buffalo country: America's National Bison Range by wildlife photographer Donald M. Jones is a softcover photographic gallery of splendor of Montana wildlife. Beautiful, full-color images on every page of the Bison Range environment, flowers, and animals from rams and deer to owls, mountain bluebirds, mink, and turtles provide lavish illustration, while the text recounts the story of how bison recovered from near-extermination, how the National Bison Range was created, and the tale of Big Medicine, the sacred white buffalo. Especially recommended as a giftbook for nature lovers. ... Read more