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 Author Name: Charles G. Anderson
Title: IN SEARCH OF THE BUFFALO: THE STORY OF J. WRIGHT MOOAR
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: PIONEER PRESS - Dixie Gun Work
ISBN Number: 1877704245 / 9781877704246
Seller ID: 1596528
This 19-yr-old was the 1st to hunt buffalo for their hides; a major facet in the extermination of the great shaggy bison. Profusely illus, End notes, Index, & Bibliography; 6x9 inches, 144 pgs. : 35%.
'In 1870, 19 year old J. Wright Mooar left his Vermont home and ventured 'out West.' He was first a woodcutter at Ft. Hays, then formed a buffalo hunting company, the first to hunt the big shaggies for their hides, establishing an economy in central Kansas and later in the Texas Panhandle and West Texas that would become a major facet of America's Manifest Destiny, the extermination of the great, shaggy bison. A revised and updated version of Anderson's earlier biography of Mooar, it includes two appendices.
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