The Border and the Buffalo (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Firsthand Plains Memoir of Buffalo Hunting, Borderlands, Scouts, Soldiers, and the Nineteenth-Century American WestBy John R. Cook
Length11h 8m
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The Border and the Buffalo is a vivid frontier memoir that reconstructs the violent, transitional world of the Southern Plains in the years of buffalo hunting, military campaigning, and settlement expansion. Written in a plain, anecdotal, and often eyewitness style, the book blends personal recollection with regional history, offering portraits of hunters, scouts, soldiers, Native peoples, and border communities. Its literary context belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of frontier reminiscence, where memory, adventure narrative, and historical testimony converge. John R. Cook was not a detached observer but a participant in the world he describes. A buffalo hunter, scout, and plainsman, he drew upon direct experience of the Texas and Kansas borderlands, the hide trade, and encounters shaped by U.S. expansion into Indigenous territories. His practical knowledge of plains life gives the narrative its authority, while his perspective also reflects the assumptions and conflicts of his era. Readers interested in the American West, frontier literature, military history, or the cultural aftermath of the buffalo's destruction will find this work valuable. It is best approached as both a historical document and a revealing act of memory.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (175)
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GenreHistory
Length11 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13CHAPTER XI.
2INTRODUCTION.
14CHAPTER XII.
3CHAPTER I.
15CHAPTER XIII.
4CHAPTER II.
16CHAPTER XIV.
5CHAPTER III.
17MISCELLANEOUS STORIES OF BUFFALO LAND.
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6CHAPTER IV.
18STAMPEDE OF THE WHEEL-OXEN.
7CHAPTER V.
19FAVORITE HUNTING-GROUNDS.
8CHAPTER VI.
20THE UNSEEN TRAGEDY.
9CHAPTER VII.
21BELLFIELD AND THE DRIED APPLES.
10CHAPTER VIII.
22AN INCIDENT OF BEN JACKSON'S EXPERIENCE.
11CHAPTER IX.
23MY KANSAS QUEEN.
12CHAPTER X.
24Memorable Quotes
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