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Title American Serengeti : the last big animals of the Great Plains / Dan Flores.
Author Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- author.
Publication Info. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
©2016
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 Hiawassee  591.50978 FLO    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  591.50978 FLO    Check Shelves
Description 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
Contents Introduction: American Serengeti -- 1. Empires of the Sun : Big History and the Great Plains -- 2. Pronghorns : Survivors from a Lost World -- 3. Coyote : The American Jackal -- 4. Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses : The Horse Trade and the American Great Plains -- 5. The Most Dangerous Beast : The Grizzly, the Great Plains, and the West -- 6. A Dream of Bison -- 7. Wolfsong Redux -- 8. Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Re-Wilding the Plains.
Subject Animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Herbivores -- Great Plains -- History.
Predatory animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland animals -- Great Plains -- History.
Grassland ecology -- Great Plains.
Natural history -- Great Plains.
Human-animal relationships -- Great Plains -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Plains -- History.
Environmental degradation -- Great Plains -- History.
Wildlife conservation -- Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- History.
Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN 9780700622276 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : $24.95
0700622276 (hardcover : alkaline paper)