The Long Hunt: Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi

by Ted Franklin Belue

Overview

Folklore, archaeological data, and first-person narratives contrast the wanton destruction of the eastern buffalo with the spirit and heroism of the early frontier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811771160
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/15/2022
Pages:	260
Sales rank:	221,006
Product dimensions:	6.09(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Ted Franklin Belue is also the author of Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri & the Strange Fate of His Remains and The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West and has edited two Boone biographies, including Lyman C. Draper’s landmark work, The Life of Daniel Boone. He has served as a consultant and on-air commentator for the History Channel and advisor for A&E, BBC, and NBC and survived the French and Indian War as a Hollywood extra in The Last of the Mohicans. He lives in Murray, Kentucky, with his wife, Lavina, and a horde of dogs, cats, guitars, and banjos.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 The Wild Cattle of North America 1

Chapter 2 Indians, Barrens, Traces, and Wild Cows 11

Chapter 3 Buffalo and Spanish Invaders 23

Chapter 4 Fleur-de-Lis and les Boeufs Sauvages 33

Chapter 5 Englishmen and Wild Cattle 55

Chapter 6 Speculators, Traders, Long Knives, and Warm the West 69

Chapter 7 Long Hunters, Meat Getters, and Market Hunters 85

Chapter 8 Kentucky I 97

Chapter 9 Kentucky II 117

Chapter 10 Pennsylvania's "Vast Herds" 135

Chapter 11 Scouring of the First Far West 149

Chapter 12 Requiem 165

Appendix "Chase the Buffalo" 169

Abbreviations 171

Notes 175

A Selected Annotated Bibliography 207

Glossary 221

Index 231