The Death and Life of the American Buffalo, Pt I
Part I. The American Buffalo The whole country appears one mass of buffalo - Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, “Plains of the Great West” North America, by quirk of nature and history, lacks large...
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(Part I is here) Part II. Guns, Germs, and Horses Our war whoop instantly stopt, our eyes were appalled with terror; there was no one to fight with but the dead and the dying, each a mass of corruption...
View ArticleSunday Poem – The Red Sleep of Beasts
I confess a strange love of bison. They’re not the most charismatic or beautiful animal; they’re surly and they smell terrible. But they’re North America’s largest land mammal (which must count for...
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