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MeatEater's American History: The Hide Hunters (1865-1883) (Unabridged)

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  MeatEater's American History: The Hide Hunters (1865-1883) (Unabridged) Audiobook ∙ Biographies & Memoirs ∙ 2025 Steven Rinella From the creators of the  New York Times  bestselling audio series  Campfire Stories  and  MeatEater's American History  comes a new audiobook original that immerses listeners into the brutal and unforgiving world of the professional buffalo hunters who drove America's most iconic wildlife species to the brink of extinction. Steven Rinella ( The MeatEater Podcast ) takes you deep into the blood-soaked world of the hide hunters who invaded the western frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War , killing and skinning millions of buffalo to supply a resource-hungry nation with an untapped source of leather. From the scorching plains of Texas to the frozen prairie of northern Montana , they lived a nomadic, hardscrabble existence punctuated by raging blizzards, desperate shootouts, agonizing thirst, stampeding herds , ...