ISBN: 9780918532909
Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes takes you to 10 sites of historic and current buffalo events within a relatively small area of rugged buttes and badlands. Softcover, full-color, 6" x 9" format.
Buffalo Trails takes you to 10 sites of historic and current buffalo events, all within a relatively small area of rugged buttes and badlands at the center of the northern plains. Relive the excitement of the last great buffalo hunts by Lakota and Dakota Sioux people, ancient buffalo jumps, the Native rescue of 5 calves that changed history, and restoration of buffalo herds on tribal lands, private ranches and public parks. Softcover, full color, 6”x 9” format.
Francie M. Berg is a teacher, historian and author of fifteen books, with strong homestead and ranching roots in the Old West. Born at home in the Missouri River Breaks, she grew up on a Montana ranch and lives in Hettinger, North Dakota, within a few miles of her grandparents’ South Dakota homestead and the center of a fascinating buffalo heritage of which she writes in Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes and its companion book Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains. Her books on western history include: North Dakota Land of Changing Seasons, South Dakota Land of Shining Gold, Wyoming Land of Echoing Canyons, Ethnic Heritage in North Dakota and the Last Great Buffalo Hunts: Traditional Hunts in 1880-1883 by Teton Lakota. She has worked as a county extension agent, and taught high school, college and adult education. A graduate of Montana State University in Bozeman, Berg has a master’s degree in family and anthropology from the University of Minnesota.
