American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

"Wonderful book. Compelling read. Superb writing about wildlife, climate, terrain, and history." according to Kindle Customer. Superb book for anyone who loves wildlife or the Plains or Yellowstone. I can't recommend it highly enough, if only for the first chapter which gives a wonderful overview of the vast history of the area. Unique type of literature about animals and terrain. Surp. Bob said A recent history of the great plains fauna. I had hoped for more than just a mention of those mammals which are now gone; the mammoths, short faced bears, giant sloths, great cats, etc But understand this story was not theirs. It is a great history of those mammals which remain, though in small numbers a. Golfwize said Excellent Summary Of Plains History. Really a great read. It is hard to fathom all the killing of wildlife that took place in the 1800's but it's a story worth telling and it should be done accurately. Hopefully too, people will read this and become inspired to support a national park that is trul

In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory - and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and, ultimately, a federal killing program in the 19th and 20th centuries.. America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than 200 years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals"