Prairie Ghost

Richard E McCabe is executive vice president of the Wildlife Management Institute in Washington DC and has written extensively on ethnozoology. Bart W O'Gara, deceased, led the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Montana, Missoula. Henry M. Reeves, retired, was a wildlife biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He resides in, Oregon, and is well-known and respected for his natural history research and writing.

; List of Figures / ix List of Tables / xi Foreword / xiii Preface / xv Acknowledgments / xvii INTRODUCTION / 1 PREHISTORY / 3; The First People / 4; Occupying North America / 4; Means of Subsistence / 8; Distribution of Pronghorn / 11; Vulnerability to Hunting / 14; Capturing Pronghorn / 15; Quantifying Foods Used / 18; Prehistoric Weapons / 27; Artifacts / 29; Burial Offerings / 32 HISTORY / 33; Spanish / 34; French and English / 37; Introduction of the Pronghorn to Science / 38; Corps of Discovery / 39; Indians of the West / 45; The Coming of Horses / 48; Bows and Arrows / 50; Firearms / 52; Aboriginal Hunting / 53; Distribution, Processing and; Transporting / 75; Cooking and Preserving / 77; Indian Uses of Pronghorn / 77; Captive Pronghorn / 86; Petroglyphs and Pictographs / 87; Decoration / 88; Clans, Societies and Kachinas / 90; Spiritualism / 92; Music / 97; Orientation / 99; Language / 101; Trade / 102; Near Demise of Bison / 105; Near Demise of the People / 107; Near Demise of Pronghorn / 114; Prairie Wraith and the Genesis of; Conservation / 132 Appendices / 135 References / 151 Index / 167; Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Pronghorn antelope North America History, Human-animal relationships North America History