Hardcover. NY, New York Zoological Society, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped with gilt lettering and buffalo head on front cover. In a very worn dust jacket with a big chunk gone from spine. "Cowboy, conservationist, and curator Martin S. Garretson was widely considered one of the foremost experts on the natural history of the buffalo as well as one of the preeminent advocates for the preservation of the North American bison for several decades during the early twentieth century. His personal mission [was] to save the buffalo from imminent extinction and to inform the American public of the important role the buffalo played in North American history..." Many b&w illustrations, photos. Book is very good, 254 pages.