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In the last three decades of the 19th century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million family pets was reduced to 23. It was the time of Manifest Destiny, a gilded age that looked at the West as only a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or taken down. Supporting hide hunters was the US Army, which considered the eradication of the buffalo necessary to triumph in its ongoing war on Native People in america. Into that maelstrom rode young George Bird Grinnell. A scientist and a journalist, a hunter and a conservationist, Grinnell would lead the battle to save lots of the buffalo from extinction. Fighting in the web pages of mags, in Washington's halls of ability, and in the iced valleys of Yellowstone, Grinnell and his allies wanted to preserve an icon. Grinnell distributed his escapades with some of the greatest and most infamous character types of the American West - from John Wayne Audubon and Buffalo Bill to George Armstrong Custer and Theodore Roosevelt. Last Stand is a strikingly modern-day story: The saga of Grinnell and the buffalo was the first nationwide battle over the surroundings. Grinnell's legacy includes the delivery of the conservation movement as a effective political force.
