John R. Cook, a self-described uneducated man writing at sixty-three, recalls the bloody Missouri and Kansas border, then years as a professional hide hunter on the Southwest plains. He describes the camps, the guns and cartridges, the enormous kills that destroyed the herds, and clashes with the plains tribes, all told plainly in the hunter’s own voice.
A raw primary source on the end of the buffalo, as revealing for what it celebrates as for what it records. Download the free EPUB.