The Destruction of the Bison

Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. An environmental historian specializing in the North American West, he is the co-author of The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump (2018) and the author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2013) and Mining California: An Ecological History (2005).

'The Destruction of the Bison is one of those very rare books that manage to be the definite work on a subject and simultaneously profoundly change how we understand that subject. No one can write about the destruction of America's national mammal - and the peoples who exploited and cared for it - without engaging with Andrew Isenberg's bold masterwork.' Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford

• Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The grassland environment; 2. The genesis of the nomads; 3. The nomadic experiment; 4. The ascendancy of the market; 5. The wild and the tamed; 6. The returns of the bison; Conclusion; Afterword; Index.