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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689830254
• ISBN13: 9780689830259
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 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.