Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith

By Jeanette Prodgers

Book Overview

Written in a matter-of-fact, often humorous style, 'The Champion Buffalo Hunter' is the engaging memoir of one of the most famous frontiersmen of the early West, 'Yellowstone Vic' Smith. Recently discovered in Harvard's Houghton Library by editor Jeanette Prodgers, this remarkable account (told in the third person) is comparable to Andrew Garcia's 'Tough Trip through Paradise, ' but notes Prodgers, 'without the melodrama.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762748982
• ISBN13: 9780762748983
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A fascinating find

I'm so impressed by this book. It's well researched, meticulously footnoted, and filled with interesting details about the life of Yellowstone Vic Smith -- a colorful figure who was forgotten and overlooked by most historians. Of course, Yellowstone Vic Smith himself deserves a lot of the credit for the appeal of this book: after all, he wrote most of it. Jeanette Prodgers' research and references, however, bring his memoirs to life, and she puts his work into context for modern readers. I'd recommend this book to anyone who's interested in frontier history.