Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West Black author of AK-47: The Weapon

author of AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War

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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West Black author of AK-47: The WeaponSoftcover, 286 Pages. Michael Punke's 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 the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be