The Great Buffalo Hunt. by Gard, Wayne - 1960.

New York:: Alfred A Knopf, 1960.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: khaki cloth with burgundy buffalo vignette; burgundy and turquoise on the spine; top edge tint is light red; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Bibliography, index. Description: Illustrated with 17 halftone reproductions from various sources and with line drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. A comprehensive history of the slaughter of the buffalo, the battles between the hunters and Indians. Also tells of the buffalo hunting for sport by Washington Irving and the Russian Prince Alexis. Describes Buffalo Bill's killing buffaloes to feed the men who were building a railroad across the plains. Most of the book, however chronicles the hide hunters who swarmed over the ranges in 1871 and reduced the herds of nearly forty million buffaloes to fewer than one-thousand, taking the hides and leaving the meat to rot. Six-Guns, Number 801; 50 Great Western Illustrators, Eggenhofer Number 79