Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs Of Yellowstone Vic Smith

The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, “Yellowstone Vic” Smith. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, he lived a colorful life across the American frontier from the 1870s to 1890s. A classic frontiersman, he was a trapper, dispatch rider, scout, trick shot—and, yes, buffalo hunter extraordinaire.

Discovered in Harvard University's Houghton Library in 1990, this remarkable autobiography—which Smith wrote in the third pers...