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Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

byDayton DuncanandKen Burns

Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns tell the sweeping story of the American buffalo, from its ancient relationship with grassland ecosystems and Indigenous nations to near extermination in the nineteenth century. Hunters, railroads, military policy, markets, conservationists, ranchers, and tribal communities shape a history in which the animal became both commodity and national symbol. Richly illustrated, the book follows campaigns that saved a remnant population and contemporary efforts to restore herds. It presents recovery as remarkable but incomplete, inseparable from questions of land, sovereignty, ecological repair, and historical memory.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780593537343