Review of Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers

Authors

Bob Ross, Pocatello, Idaho

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:2 (Spring 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The killing of the buffalo herds and introduction of domestic livestock was the pivotal ecological event in the recent history of the Great Plains. Don Biggers, a pioneer West Texas journalist, collected eyewitness accounts and produced History That Will Never Be Repeated and Pictures of the Past, published in 1901 and 1902 respectively. These valuable and lively books are now republished, along with diamond..sharp photographs from the same era, an introduction, and a brief biography of Biggers, under the title Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire.