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| Bison: Monarch of the Plains | 
| Author: Linda M Hasselstrom
Creator: David Fitzgerald
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 490496
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 13.4 x 10.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1558684069
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.643
EAN: 9781558684065
ASIN: 1558684069
Publication Date: October 1, 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 Monarch of the Plains June 27, 2007
This is a beautiful book, very well done. The photos in it are excellent. We give this book out to our Speakers at conferences. It is a great coffee table book.
 Some very nice pictures, not a lot of information March 16, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book to be interesting, with a lot of nice pictures, but sort of short on information. It's 128 pages long, many of them full page photos (which no doubt cut down the number of possible information pages)and is divided into several sections. Much of the book is done from a sort of American Indian perspective telling of their traditions and uses, conflicts with the white man. Later on you get some stuff on the buffalo hunting period, that's also interesting if not entirely error free (in one place the dates are given as 1934 and 1947, that should be 18, not 19. They also call buffalo rifles .50 caliber when one photo clearly shows mention of other calibers).
Apparently a huge number of animals were killed even in the early pre- 1870's years.
The last part of the book tells of efforts to save the remainders of the great herds and how that's worked out as well as hopes for the future.
I'd liked to have had much more information (there are notes & a reading list at books end)but did really appreciate the large selection of photographs, most of them modern but some historical, that included not only the buffalo but some of the things made from or related to them. This is the real reason to buy the book.
Outstanding photography December 16, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you love the Great Plains and have a heart for the prairie, this book will delight you. The photography in here is outstanding. After working with buffalo earlier this year, this was a book I had to get. Some of the photos, including the cover photo, bring not only the sights but also the smells and sounds of the giant herds to mind. These photos are worth more than 1,000 words... because they speak to my prairie heart.
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