Thunder on the Plains: The Story of the American Buffalo

By Ken Robbins

Book Overview

Ken Robbins tells in words and historical photographs the amazing yet tragic story of a magnificent and truly American creature: the buffalo. It is the story of numbers so vast, it might take days for one herd of buffalo to pass a particular point on the prairie. It is the story of a harmonious, balanced relationship with Native Americans who revered and even worshiped the huge animals that gave them almost everything they needed to survive. And it is the sad story of how, in as little as twenty-five years, reckless and wasteful slaughter at the hands of newly-arrived settlers drove the buffalo to the very brink of extinction. But luckily the story has a somewhat happy ending. The destruction was halted and the number of buffalo has risen again, although the days when a stampeding herd made a sound like thunder on the plains are probably gone forever.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689830254
• ISBN13: 9780689830259
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Kind of unfair

to give the book bad marks because you didn't read far enough to find out it is a children's book. Robbins creates beautiful works of art with his books and I was pleased to find he had done a book on buffalo. A great addition to his body of work.

must read for better undersanding

it's one those rare american animal with should a great spirit.