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Michael Punke. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Maps
PROLOGUE. THE STAND
CHAPTER ONE “Wild and Wooly”
CHAPTER TWO “Self-Denial”
CHAPTER THREE “Barbarism Pure and Simple”
CHAPTER FOUR “I Felled a Mighty Bison”
CHAPTER FIVE “The Guns of Other Hunters”
CHAPTER SIX “That Will Mean an Indian War”
CHAPTER SEVEN “Ere Long Exterminated”
CHAPTER EIGHT “A Weekly Journal”
CHAPTER NINE “No Longer a Place for Them”
CHAPTER TEN “Blundering, Plundering”
CHAPTER ELEVEN “The Meanest Work I Ever Did”
CHAPTER TWELVE “A Terror to Evil-Doers”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN “A Single Rock”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN “For All It Is Worth”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN “Simple Majesty”
EPILOGUE. THE LAST STAND “Something Unprecedented”
Notes. Prologue: The Stand
Chapter 1: “Wild and Wooly”
Chapter 2: “Self-Denial”
Chapter 3: “Barbarism Pure and Simple”
Chapter 4: “I Felled a Mighty Bison”
Chapter 5: “The Guns of Other Hunters”
Chapter 6: “That Will Mean an Indian War”
Chapter 7: “Ere Long Exterminated”
Chapter 8: “A Weekly Journal”
Chapter 9: “No Longer a Place for Them”
Chapter 10: “Blundering, Plundering”
Chapter 11: “The Meanest Work I Ever Did”
Chapter 12: “A Terror to Evil-Doers”
Chapter 13: “A Single Rock”
Chapter 14: “For All It Is Worth”
Chapter 15: “Simple Majesty”
Epilogue: The Last Stand—“Something Unprecedented”
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Michael Punke
About the Publisher
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For Sophie and Bo:
May your children’s children see wild buffalo on the plains.
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Nor did Grinnell have any sense of direction, a passive actor in setting the course of his life. “It had been determined that, when I left school, I should go to Yale, where my grandfather had graduated in 1804, and others of my ancestors had associations.” Even with family connections, Grinnell’s academic credentials made admission to Yale a dubious proposition. Grinnell’s instructors at Churchill warned him that he was not prepared to pass Yale’s rigorous entrance exams. But “my parents had made up their minds, and I was not in the habit of questioning my father’s decisions.” Grinnell spent the summer of 1866 in tedious remedial review. In September he traveled to New Haven and just managed to gain entrance, though “I had conditions in Greek and in Euclid.”16
Having successfully put his nose to the grindstone to win admittance, Grinnell found that his lackadaisical attitude toward his education quickly resurfaced once on campus. “Little of interest happened” was his summary of his freshman year. Grinnell’s sophomore year was more interesting because, as he explained, “I was perpetually in trouble.” He did find application for his outdoor skills, climbing up the lightning rod of a campus clock tower in order to inscribe his class number at the top. Grinnell was also an enthusiastic participant in “all the hazing and hat-stealing which was usual by Sophomores.” Partway through the fall semester, Grinnell was “detected in hazing a Freshman, and was suspended for one year.”
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