Oblong-shaped softcover book with stiff paper illustrated covers, no dust jacket present, covers have moderate surface area and extremity wear, front cover has top edge wear and wrinkles especially the top cover corner edge, and surface liftoff area measuring @ 1/2” x 1 1/2”, binding is complete and solid, interior is clean. Overall condition of the book is Good - near Good +. Please see photos for more information on the condition of the book. Overall dimensions of the book are 8 1/4” tall x 10 1/2” wide x @1/2” thick. 8vo/octavo size at spine, 191 pages, generously illustrated throughout with brown tint photos and drawings, contents page, introduction, index, acknowledgements section, text color is dark green, published by The Hart Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1973 (1973), First Edition thus.

A mostly clean condition, save for some small cover issues, and a solid binding, makes this fascinating and informative book perfect for adding to one’s collection, or gifting to a deserving bibliophile. From the rear cover notes: “ The Plains Indian revered the buffalo, for it was a gift from the Great Spirit, taken from the inside of Mother Earth itself. Accordingly, the Indian killed only as many buffalo as he needed and wasted nothing: the huge beast furnished him with food, clothing, bed, lodge, utensils, and most of the decorative ornaments that brightened his life. The white man, however, viewed the buffalo as both an impediment to progress and a source of easy capital. Less than one-third of the curly cows he slaughtered were ever used for anything. Some Western epicures would slay the animal only for its delicious tongue, leaving the carcass for the wolves. Other hunters would kill the buffalo only for its hide - or for “sport.” In 1851, at least 75 million buffalo roamed the western plains; fifty years later, only 2,500 remained, most of them in captivity. The limitless “brown sea” of buffalo described by the Spanish explorers had become a vast graveyard of bleached bones. Only the dedicated efforts of a few friends of the buffalo - Walking Coyote, Charles Goodnight, Theodore Roosevelt - saved it from extinction. Today, because of the effort of dedicated conservationists - particularly the U.S. Department of the Interior - more than 10,000 bison roam the American West. THE SAGA OF THE BUFFALO is also the saga of the West; of the transcontinental railroad; of homesteaders and hunters; of Buffalo Bill and John Jacob Astor and Sitting Bull. Cy Martin’s lively and enlightening story of the frontier is illustrated by a slew of rare and fascinating photographs.”

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