American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

Historian and naturalist Dan Flores portrays the Great Plains as a wildlife spectacle that rivaled Africa's Serengeti, devoting chapters to the pronghorn, the coyote, wild horses, the grizzly, bison and wolves. He traces each animal's deep history and behavior, and the destruction wrought by market hunters, ranchers and a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A closing chapter weighs how Americans have loved and hated the plains, and the prospects for restoring some of their big animals.

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Joe Rogan: “Yeah, that's great too. The, what his theory is, and I think it's valid, that the time where they saw millions of buffalo was because the Native Americans had been wiped out by disease.”