With Ken Burns’ new film The American Buffalo airing October 16 on PBS, Clay recommends a few books on the bison, Great Plains and American West.
Stefan Bechtel. Mr. Hornaday’s War: How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World.
Ernest Callenbach. Bring Back the Buffalo: A Sustainable Future for America’s Great Plains.
Gregory J. Dahler. The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife.
David A. Dary. The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga Of The American Animal.
Dan Flores. American Serengeti: The Last Big Game Animals of the Great Plains and The Natural West.
David Gessner. All the Wild that Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West.
William Temple Hornaday. The Extermination of the American Bison.
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Now that the Buffalo’s Gone.
Char Miller and Clay Jenkinson, ed., Theodore Roosevelt: Naturalist in the Arena. Chapter on the work of William Hornaday and his relationship with Roosevelt by Clay Jenkinson.
Michael Punke. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West.
Steven Rinella. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon.
Victor Grant Smith. Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs Of Yellowstone Vic Smith
Louis Warren. Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show.