THE PLAINS OF THE GREAT WEST AND THEIR INHABITANTS BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAINS. GAME, INDIANS, etc. OF THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN DESERT. By Richard Irving Dodge.

(1877) 1959 edition. Large 8vo (149 x 28mm). Pplv,452. B/w plates of engravings, map. Light green cloth, spine titled in maroon, illustration of native American on hordeback, hunting a buffalo to upper board.

A reprint of a classic text that was out of print for decades. "The author's description of the slaughter of the buffalo, which in three short years were reduced to a few straggling animals from the endless hordes which impeded the passage of trains across the prairie, alone entitles the book to permanent place in the annals of the West." (from the flyleaf). Chapters include: Game, and how to get it; Boffalo; Wild cattle; Elk; Black-tailed deer; Red deer; Antelope; Mountain sheep; Wolves; Other animals; Game birds of the plains; Fish and fishing.