"This is an abridgment by Abby Miller of the memoir of James R. Mead, Kansas pioneer, trader, and hunter: Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains 1859-1875. It

James R. Mead, explorer, naturalist, and plainsman, came to Kansas Territory in 1859. He hunted buffalo, built trading posts in Towanda, on the Ninnescah River

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology o

This unique history chronicles reciprocal relations between settlers and the native fauna of Kansas from the end of the Civil War until 1880. While including th