The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, “Yellowstone Vic” Smith. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, he lived a colorful life across the American frontier from the 1870s to 1890s. A classic frontiersman, he was a trapper, dispatch rider, scout, trick shot―and, yes, buffalo hunter extraordinaire. 
Discovered in Harvard University's Houghton Library in 1990, this remarkable autobiography―which Smith wrote in the third person―is comparable to Andrew Garcia's Tough Trip through Paradise, but, notes the editor, “without the melodrama.” Written in a matter-of-fact, often humorous style, it will engage and entertain all those interested in the lives and times of the men who wandered the West, following the great herds and settling only long enough for the snows to melt. This new edition includes a revised and updated foreword by Jeanette Prodgers based on new research into the life of Yellowstone Vic.

Champion Buffalo Hunter

Biographies & Memoirs

Prodgers, Jeanette

Historical

G06-TwoDot

For many today, the grizzly bear symbolizes the beauty and power of the natural world. But only in the recent past has the grizzly emerged as a cause celebre among conservationists, who argue that this magnificent animal is what puts the "wild" in wilderness. To early settlers of the American West, the grizzly embodied nature at its most savage and hostile, and for much of human history, "the only good bear was a dead bear." In this extraordinary collection, Jeanette Prodgers has assembled-from newspapers, national magazines, and classic reference works-stories by and about people who have encountered bears in every situation imaginable. Each story is fascinating, exciting, often brutal or hilarious in its own right, but as a collection these stories also document the behavior of bears-and people-as no scientific survey can. Besides the grizzlies that are chased, hunted, lassoed, drugged during hibernation, and baited with honey-smothered blasting caps, The Only Good Bear is a Dead Bear features a diverse and entertaining cast of characters: frightened settlers, confident children, fast-running eastern dudes, even a bison bull fighting to the death to protect his herd. Many of the stories are tragic, too, not only because they end in violence but because they portray ignorance and carelessness.

Only Good Bear Is a Dead Bear

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Falcon Pr Pub Co

This is an extraordinary collection of great bear stories from the early American West. Here are little-known tales of grizzly and black bears and the people such as hunters, cowboys, settlers, and naturalists, who encountered them. The stories are always exciting, sometimes tragic, and occasionally humorous. Together, they vividly illustrate the behavior of bears and people as the frontier was settled and they capture both the fascination and fear that pioneers experiences with bears, especially the grizzly, the great bear that inspired awe and respect from all who encountered it.

Only Good Bear: Historic Bear Stories of the Western Frontier

Riverbend

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