Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs Of Yellowstone Vic Smith

By Jeanette Prodgers

Book Overview

The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, "Yellowstone Vic" Smith. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, he lived a colorful life across the American frontier from the 1870s to 1890s. A classic frontiersman, he was a trapper, dispatch rider, scout, trick shot-and, yes, buffalo hunter extraordinaire. Discovered in Harvard University's Houghton Library in 1990, this remarkable autobiography-which Smith wrote in the third person-is comparable to Andrew Garcia's Tough Trip through Paradise, but, notes the editor, "without the melodrama." Written in a matter-of-fact, often humorous style, it will engage and entertain all those interested in the lives and times of the men who wandered the West, following the great herds and settling only long enough for the snows to melt. This new edition includes a revised and updated foreword by Jeanette Prodgers based on new research into the life of Yellowstone Vic.

• 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.