This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Buffalo Trail and the King of the Plains
An expansive portrait of the American bison as monarch of the wilderness, its role in shaping westward history, and the lives of plains peoples. It details buffalo herds, early explorers, rail construction dependency on hides and meat, buffalo wallows, wallowing behavior, and the sacred status of the animal to Indigenous tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Plains
Northwest
Redmen
Catlin
Mexico
Hudson’s Bay
West
Plains
Far West
Ashley and Smith
Commonwealth
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Wyoming
Carolinas
St. Louis
Kentucky
Mississippi River
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Prairies
Great River
Coronado
Missouri River
M. Nicollet
Fort Pierre
South Dakota
Alexander McKenzie
Chardron
Fort Union
Paradise
Europe
Rockies
Mother Worth
Buffalo Country
Tere
Redman
Arctic Circle
Great Slave Lake
Kin Grande River
Daniel Oone
Larry Young
Kansas
Middle West
Boston
New York
Upper Plains
Clear Face
Bradley
Wolvear
Um" Bridger
Deine
Bridger
Druin
Butch