American Serengeti

In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of the lost splendor and a detailed natural history of the charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, a veteran naturalist and outdoorsman draws a vivid portrait of each of the Great Plains animals in their glory∙and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Natural History)