| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.1

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Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America. By Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. xvii + 175 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.

What a fascinating and little-understood animal is the pronghorn antelope! Even its name, like the "Indians," who have shared its grassland, shrub land, and desert habitats for over ten thousand years, is a misnomer, for it is unrelated to the true antelopes of Africa. Unlike other large fauna of the American plains and prairies, the pronghorn evolved in North America, and that evolution produced an animal with protuberant eyes that allow for a nearly 360-degree field of vision, and eyesight that is equivalent to a person looking through 8X binoculars. Invariably, the pronghorn sees you before you see it, and then it is only as the animal is heading rapidly for the horizon or vanishing, ghostlike, over a rise. Able to reach speeds of 60 mph for a short time, it is the second-fastest land animal on earth; only the cheetah is faster.

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