Encyclopedia of Buffalo Hunters and Skinners, Volumes 1 & 2

Get volumes 1 and 2 covering buffalo hunters and skinners from A - K!

Volume I - A through D - of a proposed multi - volume set of books on the decade of the buffalo hide hunters. Entries include mini-biographies of these men, from Waldo P. Abbott through J.N. DuBois, 335 men (and a few women) who hunted buffalo in the decade and a half, from 1870 - 1885. Miles Gilbert, author of a previous book and numerous articles about buffalo hunters, began research on the book in 1994; Leo Remiger, from Anchorage, Alaska, heard about Miles' research, offered his own cache of names and bios, as did Sharon Cunningham in 1996. Since then, this trio has spent many hundreds of hours traveling, calling, e-mailing and searching museums, archives, libraries books, newspapers and magazine articles to find as many of these buffalo hunters and skinners as possible. Hardbound, 8 ½ X 11, 286 pages. Includes over 300 entries, 91 photos of both hunters and their rifles and accoutrements, 11 maps, 7 illustrations (including two Sharps Factory Letters, and a two page chart listing artifacts located at Adobe Walls during the University of Texas' excavation of the famous battle site. The printed board cover paintings are of buffalo and hunters by our good friend, Fred Fellows of Sonoita, Arizona.

Volume II - E thru K by Leo Remiger, Miles Gilbert and Sharon Cunningham. The multi volume book titled above will eventually have (5) volumes. This one, Vol. II, covers hunters and skinners, that have so far surfaced, with surnames that begin with E-K, beginning with skinner William Earl and runs through the Kuykendall brothers, Judge and John, who hunted late (1886 - 1888) in southeastern New Mexico. This volume will be essentially the same size as Vol. I and they will look alike on the bookshelf. Hardbound w/cover, 8 1/2 X 11, approx. 285 pages, 115 photos, 15 drawings/newspaper items, and 6 maps. Index, Bibliography.