Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0062970097 ISBN13: 9780062970091 Release Date: June 2020 Publisher: Harper Perennial Length: 320 Pages Weight: 0.80 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1" The dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant Michael Punke's The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.Over the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. The buffalo in this world was a commodity, hounded by legions of swashbucklers and unemployed veterans seeking to make their fortunes. Supporting these hide hunters, even buying their ammunition, was th