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The author offers first-person reminiscences of life on the southwestern plains, tracing childhood on a turbulent border, experiences hunting vast herds of buffalo, the techniques and commerce of hide gathering, and violent clashes with Indigenous warriors and guerrillas. The narrative mixes hunting lore and survival episodes—long treks, encounters with predators, camp life, and makeshift justice—with accounts of scouts and fellow hunters who guided or rescued parties. Interspersed are reflections on the ecological devastation caused by mass slaughter of buffalo and the hardships of frontier travel, together framing a portrait of rough-and-ready frontier communities, their routines, hazards, and codes of honor.

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Title: The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains

Author: John R. Cook

Release date: March 14, 2016 [eBook #51448]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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JOHN R. COOK.

The Border and the Buffalo

AN UNTOLD STORY OF THE
SOUTHWEST PLAINS

The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas.
The Story of the Slaughter of the
Buffalo. Westward among
the Big Game and
Wild Tribes.

A STORY OF MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN

BY
JOHN R. COOK

MONOTYPED AND PRINTED
By CRANE & COMPANY
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1907

Copyrighted January, 1907,
By John R. Cook.
All rights reserved.

The Border and the Buffalo

BY

JOHN R. COOK

Especially dedicated to my crippled wife, who patiently assisted and encouraged me to write this book; and to Sol Rees, Mortimer N. Kress ("Wild Bill"); also, that noble band of Buffalo hunters who stood shoulder to shoulder and fought Kiowas, Comanches, and Staked Plains Apaches, during the summer of 1877 on the Llano Estacado, or the Staked Plains of Western Texas and Eastern New Mexico, whose memories will ever pleasantly abide with

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