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America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest animals spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, grey wolves, bison, coyotes, crazy horses, and grizzly bears: less than 200 years back these creatures been around in such plethora that John James Audubon was moved to write "it is impossible to spell it out or even conceive the huge multitudes of these animals". In the work that is at once a lyrical evocation of this lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic kinds of the traditional Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores pulls a vivid portrait of each of these family pets in their glory - and tells the harrowing tale of what occurred to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and, inevitably, a federal killing program in the 19th and 20th hundreds of years.
