Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

The dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant

Michael Punke's The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.

Over the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated ...