When Buffalo Ran - Hardcover

Grinnell, George Bird

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806107154 ISBN 13: 9780806107158

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966

Synopsis

The Plains Country. SEVENTY years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were I ndians, and the plains were the plains indeed. Those plains stretched out in limitless rolling swells of prairie until they met the blue sky that on every hand bent down to touch them. In spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow. Clumps of dark green cottonwoods marked the courses of the infrequent streams for most of the year the only note of color in the landscape, except the brilliant sky. On the wide, level river bottoms, sheltered by the enclosing hills, the Indians pitched their conical skin lodges and lived their simple lives. If the camp were large the lodges stood in a wide circle, but if only a few families were together, they were scattered along the stream. In the spring and early summer the rivers, swollen by the melting snows, were often deep and rapid, but a little later they shrank to a few narrow trickles running over a bed of sand, and sometimes the water sank wholly out of sight. The animals of the prairie and the roots and berries that grew in the bottoms and on the uplands gave the people their chief sustenance.
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George Bird Grinnell was a man of diverse talents editor, author, traveler, and scientist. Born in 1849, he became, by turn of the century, one of the best-known and most popular interpreters of the American Indian.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806107154
• ISBN 13: 9780806107158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 114