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2) Bison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Did you know that American bison are the largest land mammals in North America? Bison live in small groups called bands. Sometimes, bands join together to form a large herd. Learn more about the bison in this informative book.
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Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest's inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Comanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white hunters, and his own conscience, he ages fast - all the faster in facing obstacles to love's consummation with Milly. She, like Tom, is in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
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"In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s. that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari Sandoz's vast canvas is charged with color and excitement - accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, and famous frontier characters such as Wild...
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Our neighbors warned against our getting involved with bison. So intense was their concern that a delegation came by to visit about it. Earnestly, they explained that they worried that, even if after five years we seemed to have gotten pretty good at the rudiments of managing a ranch, we were getting in over our heads with this buffalo idea. Our first calf was born on Mother's Day of 1996. We had been on our place for eight years, and in spite...
7) The bison
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c1985
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Discusses the life style of the bison before it faced extinction, the period that almost killed it off, and the conservation efforts to restore the herds of North America's largest land animal.
8) Big bison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Simple text and photographs introduce bison, describing their physical characteristics, eating habits, and behavior.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the characteristics, behaviors, and life cycles of American bison, explains some of the reasons why the animals were slaughtered in the late nineteenth century, and discusses the efforts of conservationists to restore American bison populations on protected reserves and ranches.
10) American Bison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Profiles the American bison and how conservation efforts brought it back from the brink of extinction.
13) Bison
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Looks at American bison, discussing their habitat, what they eat, how they became an endagered species and more.
14) American bison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to American bison"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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To appreciate the plight of endangered species, readers are asked to consider the history of the American bison. From dominating the plains to a swift decline to the brink of extinction, the stately American bison epitomizes the crisis of habitat loss for wildlife. Delving into the shameful policies that nearly led to this creatures extermination, this book illuminates the history of the species with a helpful timeline, informative sidebars, and captivating...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"In this book, early fluent readers will learn how the American bison came back from the brink of extinction and serves as an important species in its environment. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the animal's habitat, diet, behaviors, and current status, as well as how conservation efforts helped these massive mammals make a comeback." --
19) Underwear!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Bismark the Buffalo is grumpy and unlovable until his friends teach him how to laugh and show him that wearing colorful underwear can be great fun.
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Cash McLendon novels volume 2
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After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in need of a safe haven somewhere - anywhere - on the frontier. Fleeing Dodge City, he falls in with a band of buffalo hunters heading to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle.
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