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- catalog abstract ""The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures, these hunters nearly extinguished the bison. In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife that first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11616345.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of the near-extinction of the bison. Cultural and ecological interactions created new types of bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: mounted Indian nomads and Euroamerican industrial hidemen. Together with environmental pressures, these hunters nearly extinguished the bison.".
- catalog description "In the early twentieth century, nostalgia about the very cultural strife that first threatened the bison became, ironically, an important impetus to its preservation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The grassland environment -- The genesis of the Nomads -- The Nomadic experiment -- The ascendancy of the market -- The wild and the tamed -- The return of the bison.".
- catalog extent "xii, 206 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521771722".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in environment and history".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "North America.".
- catalog subject "333.95/9643/0978 21".
- catalog subject "American bison hunting History.".
- catalog subject "American bison.".
- catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on North America.".
- catalog subject "QL737.U53 I834 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "The grassland environment -- The genesis of the Nomads -- The Nomadic experiment -- The ascendancy of the market -- The wild and the tamed -- The return of the bison.".
- catalog title "The destruction of the bison : an environmental history, 1750-1920 / Andrew C. Isenberg.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".