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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NY BOOK reaches completion because so many people helped the author-so many people that no author can thank each of them. Yet the wonderful thing to any author is people's interest in his project and desire to help. So to the dozens who talked with me-handed me pictures and newspaper clippings-thanks. I wish I could name you all. I thank my associates at the University of Montana. Over the years some have read bits and pieces and made suggestions. Bill Farr found photos for me. Various people at the interlibrary loan desk searched out and obtained books and journals from all over the United States. The University of Montana Foundation granted money to visit the Conservation Center Library in Denver. And special thanks to Dale Johnson, Archivist at the Mansfield Library, who searched out letters and records even as the archives moved from one building to another. Various people at the National Bison Range at Moiese, Montana helped the project along: Cy Young, Orville Kaschke, Joe Mazzoni and Victor "Babe" May shared their knowledge of the herd and took me to its out-of-the-way hideouts. I met Dr. Dale Lott there. He sent me his then-unpublished manuscript on buffalo sexual behavior. Others outside of Montana also shared their time xiii and knowledge: Mary Meagher, biologist in Yellowstone Park who knows so much about the park herd; Hugh Dempsey and his staff at the Glenbow-Alberta Foundation who piled one of their worktables high with buffalo material for me; Frank G. Roe, author of The North American Buffalo, who spent a day in Victoria , B.C. talking of buffalo over cups of tea; Peter Hassrick, director of The Buffalo Bill Historical Center , who showed me hundreds of buffalo pictures both at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and The Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody; Mrs. Roberta Wynne of the Denver Conservation Center Library, who organized my sifting of the American Bison Society papers there; Dr. George D. Coder who shared buffalo information ; and Tom McHugh, author of The Time of the Buffalo, who stopped in Missoula to talk buffalo. Eighty members of the National Buffalo Association , about half of the membership then, returned questionnaires I mailed to them. Their information contributed much to Chapter XXI. Hats off to them: fifty percent is an unusually high return of questionnaires. And of course the support of the book by the Amon Carter Museum has added immeasurably. I wonder, in fact, if I would have researched and written all of those hours without knowing that Mitchell Wilder and his staff waited to help. It has been the warmest Heads, Hides & Horns kind of relationship a writer could have. My thanks to Mitch, whose untimely death saddened us all, and to Sally, his wife. And thanks to Nancy Wynne, librarian , and Margaret McLean, formerly Archivist; to linda Austin, formerly Project Secretary, who discovered so many buffalo references; to Barbara Tyler, who started the project before she left for Canada; to Carol Roark, Assistant Curator of Photographs, who located countless photos and secured permission for their use in this book; and to all the rest of the expert staff who added their friendly help. To Ron Tyler, Assistant Dixiv rector for Collections and Programs, who has gone the distance cheerfully and most helpfully, contributed ideas galore and wrote the book's fine foreword, my admiration and a big thank you. The editing by Judy Alter at Texas Christian University Press has firmed the book. She and the press have worked hard to produce this well-designed book. Another thanks. My children, Kristin and Eric, gave especial help, proofreading with me even as grade-schoolers. Larry Barsness ...

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