Prairie Ghost

by McCabe Richard, E.

• ISBN13: 9780870819544
• ISBN10: 0870819542
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

Thorough and well-written, this work intertwines the importance of the pronghorn in the cultures of prehistoric and historic Native Americans and more recently, Europeans. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with sketches and photographs of pronghorns in ancient pictographs and real life. . . . Nearly twenty color plates by various artists show the fascination that this species holds for many people for purely aesthetic reasons.” —Choice MagazineI recommend this book especially for the richness of its documentary voice. . . . This is an intensely firsthand tale, and the authors are generous in letting the witnesses to several centuries of pronghorn history speak for themselves. . . . You will findPrairie Ghostan incomparable overview of the changing fates of this important and beautiful animal.” —Paul Schullery, Yellowstone National Park, inMontana: The Magazine of Western HistoryThis lavishly illustrated companion volume toPronghorn: Ecology and Managementis now available in paperback. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction caused 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 remained largely unwritten.