![]() | American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains Subjects: Animals -- Great Plains -- History; Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History; Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History; Natural history -- Great Plains; Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great P; Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." Dan Flores is the A. B. Hammond Professor of History at the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of numerous books including "Horizontal Yellow: Nature & History in the Near Southwest" & "Caprock Canyonlands: Journies into the Heart of the Southern Plains", & the editor of "Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman & Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806" (University of Oklahoma Press). 050 |
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