Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
“It would be very interesting to speculate on what the human imagination is going to do with a frontierless world where it must seek its inspiration in uniformity rather than variety, in sameness rather than contrast, in safety rather than peril, in probing the harmless nuances of the known rather than the thundering uncertainties of unknown seas or continents. The… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share
Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians.… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite.… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
“The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.” — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
