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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Rosen, Richard Dean, date.
A buffalo in the house : the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West / R.D. Rosen.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-595-58730-5
Veryl. 3. Santa Fe (N.M.)—Biography. 4. American bison—New Mexico—Santa Fe. 5. Human-animal relationships—New Mexico—Santa Fe. 6. Women sculptors—New Mexico—Santa Fe—Biography. 7. Goodnight, Charles, 1836–1929. 8. Goodnight, Mary Ann, d. 1926. 9. Ranchers—Texas—Biography. 10. American bison—Conservation—Texas—History—19th century. I. Title.
F804.S253A27 2007
978.9’5603092—dc22
[B]
2006025946
Photo credits—chapters 2, 13: courtesy of the Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library and History Center, Midland, Texas; chapters 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, and 23: Veryl Goodnight; chapter 5: courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society, Mazzulla Collection, no. 10035852, by R. Beinecke; chapter 7: Edwin Alderson; chapters 11, 15, 16, 22: Roger Brooks; chapter 17: R.D. Rosen; chapters 20, 21: William A. Briggs Jr.
The song “A Prairie Without Buffalo” is quoted with the permission of Andy Wilkinson.
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