Prairie Ghost

by McCabe, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780870817588
• ISBN10: 0870817582
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

A Wildlife Management Institute Book. In this lavishly illustrated companion volume to Pronghorn: Ecology and Management, Richard E McCabe, Bart W O'Gara and Henry M Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction brought on by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has largely remained unwritten. With nearly 150 black-and-white photographs, 16 pages of colour illustrations, plus original artwork by Daniel P Metz, Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America tells the intriguing story of humans and these elusive big game mammals in an informative and entertaining fashion that will appeal to historians, biologists, sportsmen and the general reader alike.

Author Biography

Bart W. O'Gara led the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Montana, Missoula.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(2)
PREHISTORY	3	(30)
The First People	4	(1)
Occupying North America	4	(4)
Means of Subsistence	8	(3)
Distribution of Pronghorn	11	(3)
Vulnerability to Hunting	14	(1)
Capturing Pronghorn	15	(3)
Quantifying Foods Used	18	(9)
Prehistoric Weapons	27	(2)
Artifacts	29	(2)
Burial Offerings	31	(2)
HISTORY	33	(102)
Spanish	34	(3)
French and English	37	(1)
Introduction of the Pronghorn to Science	38	(1)
Corps of Discovery	39	(6)
Indians of the West	45	(3)
The Coming of Horses	48	(2)
Bows and Arrows	50	(2)
Firearms	52	(1)
Aboriginal Hunting	53	(22)
Distribution, Processing and Transporting	75	(2)
Cooking and Preserving	77	(1)
Indian Uses of Pronghorn	77	(9)
Captive Pronghorn	86	(1)
Petroglyphs and Pictographs	87	(3)
Decoration	90	(1)
Clans, Societies and Kachinas	90	(2)
Spiritualism	92	(5)
Music	97	(2)
Orientation	99	(2)
Language	101	(2)
Trade	103	(2)
Near Demise of Bison	105	(2)
Near Demise of the People	107	(7)
Near Demise of Pronghorn	114	(18)
Prairie Wraith and the Genesis of Conservation	132	(3)
Appendices	135	(16)
References	151	(20)
Index	171