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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]
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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

The Author