CONTENTS

Introduction: American Serengeti

1Empires of the Sun: Big History and the Great Plains

2Pronghorns: Survivors from a Lost World

3Coyote: The American Jackal

4Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade and the American Great Plains

5The Most Dangerous Beast: The Grizzly, the Great Plains, and the West

6A Dream of Bison

7Wolfsong Redux

8Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Re-Wilding the Plains

Selected Bibliography

Index