The Champion Buffalo Hunter (PAPERBACK)
The Champion Buffalo Hunter (PAPERBACK)
By One of the Wild West’s Most Fascinating Buffalo Hunters and Marksmen The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the captivating story of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, Yellowstone Vic Smith lived a colorful life on the American frontier from the 1870s to the 1890s. He was a trapper, dispatch rider, scout, trick shot—and buffalo hunter extraordinaire. Discovered in Harvard University’s Houghton Library in 1990, this remarkable autobiography—which Smith wrote in the third person—is narrated in a matter-of-fact, often humorous style. It is an engaging tale with insights into the lives and times of the men who wandered the West, following the great herds and settling only long enough for the snows to melt.
This new edition includes a revised and updated foreword by Jeanette Prodgers based on new research into the life of Yellowstone Vic.