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#RH-20 - “The Buffalo Hunters ” by Mari Sandoz - $10.00 Hardbound in terra cotta cloth, over decorative paper-covered boards, it measures approx. 5.75” x 8.25” and has 372 pages. It comes in its original, un-price-clipped dust jacket. Published by Hastings House in 1954, it appears to be a First Edition, based upon information in “First Editions: A Guide to Identification.” The endpapers are a map of the overlapping ranges of the 4 major herds of buffalo that historically ranged all the way from Texas in to Canada (as of 1867). This map also shows the routes of the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Santa Fe railroads as they existed at that time. 8 vintage illustrations grace the text. I found this book to be easy yet gripping to read, from cover to cover. Having been brought up on part of the range of the “Republican Herd”, and having heard first-person accounts of their passing from her father, other members of the family and family friends, Mari Sandoz is certainly qualified to write on the subject. Author-historian Mari Sandoz was born on the Sandoz family homestead on the Mirage Flats near the Niobrara River south of Hay Springs on May 11, 1896, to Swiss immigrants Jules and Mary Sandoz. The family moved in 1910 to another homestead 33 miles south of Gordon in the Nebraska Sandhills. Sandoz, who studied at what is now Chadron State College and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, won national fame in 1935, when her first book, "Old Jules," a biography of her father, was published after it had been rejected 13 times. She went on to write 23 books about the High Plains region of the American West. She died in 1966 and is buried at the Sandhills homestead. She was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in the State Capitol Building in 1975, and was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center's Hall of Great Westerners in Oklahoma City in February 1998. The condition is NearFine in a VeryGood dust jacket. There is very light bumping at the ends of the spine. There are two 1/2” closed tears at the bottom of the front panel of the dust jacket, and a couple of other small chips. A light damp stain is the only other fault involving the dust jacket. Otherwise, all is crisp, clean, tight, bright and complete.