| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 206 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $24.95.)

In retelling this American story, Isenberg presents a series of historic Euroamerican and tribal cultural and ecological encounters on the Great Plains. These encounters, he argues, created new Indian horse-mounted nomads and white industrial bison hunters who, together with changing environmental conditions, brought the bison close to disappearance. To what extent do these forces explain the bison's demise? . . .

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