" An account of a Boston man visiting the prairies and Rocky Mountains of North America in the 19th Century because he wanted to meet some Native Americans. He spends several weeks with bands of Dakotas, and shoots buffalo bulls willy-nilly, leaving them to rot. The book is full of dated attitudes, exemplified by his descriptions of Native Americans as "savages," but it's still a fascinating first-hand look into this region of what is now the US at a time when it was still beyond the control of the US government. It mixes amateur anthropology and natural history with a travel-adventure narrative. The endless accounts of shooting buffaloes got a bit repetitive. "
— Sam, 1/13/2014