Great Plains Bison By Dan O’Brien

Abstract

If a bison could write a history of the Great Plains from his own perspective, it would undoubtedly read very much as does Dan O’Brien’s Great Plains Bison. Part of the Discover the Great Plains series, published cooperatively by the Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Press (quite appropriately under the Bison Books imprint), this survey begins 13,000 years ago when the ancestors of today’s buffalo crossed the Bering Strait Land Bridge and ends with a list of Great Plains preserves and parks where part of today’s half-a million bison live.