Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America

"Thorough and well-written, this work intertwines the importance of the pronghorn in the cultures of prehistoric and historic Native Americans and more recently, Europeans. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with sketches and photographs of pronghorns in ancient pictographs and real life. . . . Nearly twenty color plates by various artists show the fascination that this species holds for many people for purely aesthetic reasons."
--Choice Magazine

"I recommend this book especially for the richness of its documentary voice. . . . This is an intensely firsthand tale, and the authors are generous in letting the witnesses to several centuries of pronghorn history speak for themselves. . . . You will find Prairie Ghost an incomparable overview of the changing fates of this important and beautiful animal."
--Paul Schullery, Yellowstone National Park, in Montana: The Magazine of Western History

This lavishly illustrated companion volume to Pronghorn: Ecology and Management is now available in paperback. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction caused by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has remained largely unwritten.

Richard E. McCabe is executive vice president of the Wildlife Management Institute in Washington, D.C., 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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He resides in, Oregon, and is well-known and respected for his natural history research and writing.