The Last of the Buffalo Return to the Wild

ISBN 9781926983226
September 2016
Editor: Harvey Locke
Available from the Publisher: Summerthought
Also available on Amazon

The Last of the Buffalo Return to the Wild is a commemoration of Banff National Park’s role in early successful efforts to preserve the last of the buffalo as a species and a celebration of today’s efforts to restore bison as an ecologically functioning and culturally important species on its native range both here and elsewhere in North America.

A reproduction of Luxton’s 1909 booklet is mounted inside the backcover.

The Last of the Buffalo Return to the Wild includes the following essays:

-the story of the present day Buffalo Treaty among Canadian first nations and American tribes as told by Leroy Little Bear
– an historical overview of the causes of the nearly complete disappearance of the plains bison by historian George Colpitts
-an appreciation of the archival records that surround Norman Luxton’s participation in the bison round-up by archivist Jennifer Rutkair
– the story of saving plains bison from extinction and the evolution of thinking that has led to the imminent  restoration of plains bison to Banff National Park by author and conservationist Harvey Locke.