Books held in the McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Aune, Keith, and Glenn E. Plumb. Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great Plains. The History Press, 2019.

Bailey, James A. American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon. Sweetgrass Books, division of Farcountry Press, 2013.

Barsness, Larry. The Bison in Art: A Graphic Chronicle of the American Bison. Northland Press, 1977.

Barsness, Larry, Ernest Harold Baynes, and Frederic Remington. Heads, Hides, & Horns: The Compleat Buffalo Book. Texas Christian University Press, 1985.

Belue, Ted Franklin. The Long Hunt: Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi. Stackpole Books, 2022. Originally 1996.

Brandt, John H. Horned Giants: Hunting Eurasian Wild Cattle. Safari Press, 1996.

Burns, Ken, et al. The American Buffalo. Florentine Films and WETA documentary film, PBS, 2023. DVD.

Byerly, Ryan Michael. Late Pleistocene to Late Holocene Variability in Bison Health: Implications for Human Bison-based Subsistence on the Northwestern and Central Great Plains. Doctoral dissertation in anthropology, Southern Methodist University, 2009.

Callenbach, Ernest. Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America’s Great Plains. Island Press, 1996.

Carey, Alan, Sandy Carey, and Ann Mallard (ed). Buffalo. Greenwich Editions, 1998.

Cheville, Norman F., Dale R. McCullough, and Lee R. Paulson. Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area. National Academy Press, 1998.

Coffman, Douglas. Reflecting the Sublime: The Rebirth of an American Icon. The River and Plains Society, 2013.

Cooper, Jo, and David Neufeld (ed). The Disappearance & Resurgence of the Buffalo. Ancient Echoes, 2002.

Danz, Harold P. Of Bison and Man: From the Annals of a Bison Yesterday to a Refreshing Outcome from Human Involvement with America’s Most Valiant of Beasts. University Press of Colorado, 1997.

Dary, David. The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Revised edition 1989, originally published 1974.

Di Silvestro, Roger L. Return of the Bison: A Story of Survival, Restoration, and a Wilder World. Mountaineers Books, 2023.

Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Interagency Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park. [National Park Service, Denver Service Center], 1998.

Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns. Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Easton, Robert, and D. Mackenzie Brown. Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones. University of Arizona Press, 1961.

Ewald, Chase Reynolds, Audrey Hall, Henry Real Bird, and John Hylan Heminway. Bison: Portrait of an Icon. Gibbs Smith, 2021.

Flores, Dan L. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains. University Press of Kansas, 2016.

Flores, Dan L. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.

Foster, John Elgin, Dick Harrison, and I. S. MacLaren. Buffalo. University of Alberta Press, 1992.

Franke, Mary Ann. To Save the Wild Bison: Life on the Edge in Yellowstone. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

Frison, George C. Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey. University of California Press, 2004.

Gates, Charles Cormack, and Len Broberg. Yellowstone Bison: The Science and Management of a Migratory Wildlife Population. University of Montana Press, 2011.

Geist, Valerius. Buffalo Nation: History and Legend of the North American Bison. Voyageur Press, 1996.

Gilbert, Miles. Getting a Stand. Pioneer Press, 1993.

Gilbert, Miles, Leo Remiger, and Sharon A. Cunningham. Encyclopedia of Buffalo Hunters and Skinners. Pioneer Press, v.1 2003, v.2 2006.

Gruenau, Douglas, and Steven Fuller. Bison: Distant Thunder. Takarajima Books, 1995.

Haines, Francis. The Buffalo. Crowell, 1970.

Harris, Adam Duncan. George Catlin’s American Buffalo. Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with D. Giles Ltd, 2013.

Hoagland, Serra J., and Steven Albert (eds). Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands: Our Place is in Our Soul. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Jennings, Jim. Qua Quei, Or, How the Buffalo Were Saved. Mission Valley News, 1974.

Jones, Karen R. Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-century American West. University Press of Colorado, 2015.

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Lee, Wayne C. Scotty Philip: The Man Who Saved the Buffalo. Caxton Printers, 1975.

Lepley, John G., and Sue Lepley (eds). The Vanishing West: Hornaday’s Buffalo: The Last of the Wild Herds. River and Plains Society, 1992.

Lott, Dale F. American Bison: A Natural History. University of California Press, 2002.

Lunde, Darrin P. The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History. Crown Publishers, 2016.

MacEwan, Grant. Buffalo: Sacred & Sacrificed. Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Foundation, 1995.

McDonald, Jerry N. North American Bison: Their Classification and Evolution. University of California Press, 1981.

McHugh, Tom. The Time of the Buffalo. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

McLeod, Malcolm, Mary Adele Rogers, and Robert Bigart. A Cowboy’s Life Is Very Dangerous Work: The Autobiography of a Flathead Reservation Indian Cowboy, 1870-1944. Salish Kootenai College Press, 2016.

Martin, Cy. The Saga of the Buffalo. Promontory Press, 1973.

Marcot, Roy M., Ron Paxton, DeWitt Baily II, and Richard Labowski. Sharps Firearms: Early Metallic Cartridge Firearms and Model 1874 Sporting Rifles, Vol. II. Northwood Heritage Press, 2017.

Matthews, Anne. Where the Buffalo Roam. Grove Press, 1993.

Meagher, Margaret Mary. The Bison of Yellowstone National Park. U.S. National Park Service, Supt. of Docs., Govt. Print. Off., 1973.

Meagher, Margaret Mary. Winter Recreation-induced Changes in Bison Numbers and Distribution in Yellowstone National Park. [Mary Meagher], 1993.

Merritt, John I. Baronets and Buffalo: The British Sportsman in the American West, 1833-1881. Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1985.

Morgan, R. Grace. Beaver Bison Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains. University of Regina Press, 2020.

Murray, Joan. The Last Buffalo: The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Painter of the Canadian West. Pagurian Press, 1984.

O’Brien, Dan. Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch. Random House, 2002.

Ogilivie, Sheilagh C., and R. C. Scace (ed). The Park Buffalo: Being an Account of the Role of Canada’s National Parks in the Preservation of the North American Bison. Calgary-Banff Chapter, National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada, 1979.

Park, Ed. The World of the Bison. Lippincott, 1969.

Payne, Harvey, James P. Ronda, and Geoffrey Standing Bear. Visions of the Tallgrass: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

Pickering, Robert B. Seeing the White Buffalo. Denver Museum of Natural History Press; Johnson Books, 1997.

Punke, Michael. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.

Repanshek, Kurt. Re-Bisoning the West: Restoring an American Icon to the Landscape. Torrey House Press, 2019.

Rinella, Steven. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon. Random House, 2009.

Robinson, Charles M., III. The Buffalo Hunters. State House Press, 1995.

Roe, Frank Gilbert. The North American Buffalo: A Critical Study of the Species in Its Wild State. University of Toronto Press, 1951, second edition 1972.

Rorabacher, J. Albert. The American Buffalo in Transition: A Historical and Economic Survey of the Bison in America. North Star Press, 1970.

Rudner, Ruth. A Chorus of Buffalo. Burford Books, 2000.

Scott, Douglas D., Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm. Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis: Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Smith, Victor Grant, and Jeanette Prodgers (ed). The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith. Revised edition, TwoDot, an imprint of the Globe Pequot Press, 2009.

Speth, John D. Bison Kills and Bone Counts: Decision Making by Ancient Hunters. University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Steelquist, Robert. Field Guide to the North American Bison: A Natural History and Viewing Guide to the Great Plains Buffalo. Sasquatch Books, 1998.

Taliaferro, John. Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Thomson, Frank. Last Buffalo of the Black Hills: A Study. [F. Thomson], 1962.

Venturino, Mike. Shooting Buffalo Rifles of the Old West. MLV Enterprises, 2002.

West, Elliott. The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains. University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

West, Elliott. The Essential West: Collected Essays. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.

Worman, Charles G. Firearms in American History: A Guide for Writers, Curators and General Readers. Westholme, 2007.

Zontek, Ken. Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Vintage publications on buffalo, 1871-1960

Allen, J. A. The American Bisons: Living and Extinct. Arno Press, 1974. Reprint of Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Mass. V. 4 n. 10. University Press, 1876.

American Bison Society. Annual Report of the American Bison Society. The Society, 1913 issue.

Branch, Edward Douglas. Introductions by J. Frank Dobie, and Andrew C. Isenberg. The Hunting of the Buffalo. University of Nebraska Press, 1997, reprint of New York: Appleton, 1929.

Cody, William F., and Frank Christianson (ed). The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill. University of Nebraska Press, 2011, originally published 1879.

Cook, John R., and Milo Milton Quaife (ed). 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. R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1938 (©1934). Edited reprint of first edition, Topeka, KS: Crane & Company, 1907.

Davies, Henry Eugene, and Paul Andrew Hutton (ed). Ten Days on the Plains. DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University Press, 1985.

Dixon, Olive K. Life of “Billy” Dixon: Plainsman, Scout, and Pioneer. State House Press, 1987, a reprint of revised edition by Southwest Press, 1927.

Duncan, Robert Lipscomb. Buffalo Country. Dutton, 1959.

Gard, Wayne. The Great Buffalo Hunt. Knopf, 1959.

Garretson, Martin S., et al. The American Bison: The Story of Its Extermination as a Wild Species and Its Restoration Under Federal Protection. New York Zoological Society, 1938.

Grinnell, George Bird. The Last of the Buffalo. Arno & The New York Times, 1970. Originally Scribner’s Magazine, September 1892 v.12 no. 3.

Haley, J. Evetts. Charles Goodnight: Cowman & Plainsman. Houghton Mifflin, 1936.

Hornaday, William T. The Extermination of the American Bison. Reissue edition, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. Originally published by Government Printing Office, 1889.

Hough, Emerson, F. Jay Haynes, and Scott Herring (ed). Rough Trip Through Yellowstone: The Epic 1894 Winter Expedition of Emerson Hough, F. Jay Haynes, and Billy Hofer: Including the Capture of Notorious Buffalo Poacher Ed Howell. Riverbend Publishing, 2013.

Inman, Henry, and William F. Cody. The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway. Illustrations by Frederick Remington. Macmillan, 1897.

Jones, Tom. The Last of the Buffalo: Comprising a History of the Buffalo Herd of the Flathead Reservation and an Account of the Great Round Up: With Illustrations. Tom Jones, Publisher Scenic Souvenirs, 1909.

Jones, Charles Jesse, and Henry Inman. Buffalo Jones’ Forty Years of Adventure: A Volume of Facts Gathered from Experience. Crane & Co., 1899.

Mayer, Frank H., and Charles B. Roth. The Buffalo Harvest. Sage Books, 1958.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. Standard library edition, Knickerbocker Press, Putnam’s Sons, 1902, originally published 1885.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1905.

Sandoz, Mari. The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men. Hastings House, 1954.

Shields, G. O. Hunting in the Great West (Rustlings in the Rockies): Hunting and Fishing by Mountain and Stream. Reprint edition, John Willard, Publisher, 1988, originally published 1888.

Wheeler, Homer W. Buffalo Days: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter, and Army Officer. Bison Book, University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Reprint of Buffalo Days: Forty Years in the Old West: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter and Army Officer. A.L. Burt Co., 1925.

Whitney, Caspar, George Bird Grinnell, and Owen Wister. Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat. Macmillan, 1904.

A few children’s books on buffalo

Berman, Ruth, and Cheryl Walsh Bellville. American Bison. Carolrhoda Books, 1992.

Berman, Ruth, and Cheryl Walsh Bellville. El Bisonte Americano. Carolrhoda Books, 1994.

Freedman, Russell. Buffalo Hunt. Holiday House, 1988.

Longbotham, Elisabeth Prude, and Jack H. Longbotham. The Adventures of Buffalo Bill and Cody: “Meeting in the Mountains.” Western Heritage Pub., 1995.

McCracken, Harold, and Remington Schuyler. The Great White Buffalo. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1946.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw, and William Muanoz. The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny. Clarion Books, 2006.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw, and William Muanoz. Buffalo: The American Bison Today. Clarion Books, 1986.

Sample, Michael S. Bison: Symbol of the American West. Falcon Press Publishing Co., Inc., 1987.

Van Laan, Nancy, and Beatriz Vidal. Buffalo Dance: A Blackfoot Legend. Little, Brown and Co., 1993.

Wilkinson, Todd., Michael H. Francis, and John F. McGee. Bison for Kids. NorthWord Press, 1994.

Winner, Cherie, and John F. McGee. Bison. Our Wild World series, NorthWord Press, 2001.

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