The Last of the Plainsmen

The narrator accompanies an aging plainsman famed for saving bison on an expedition across the Arizona desert, recording rugged landscapes, camp life, and encounters with local Navajo. Through episodic chapters of hunts, drives over plateaus and canyons, attempts to capture predators and musk-ox, and scenes of taming animals, the account mixes vivid natural description with practical lore and the hunter's personal philosophy against killing. Interwoven are reflections on the vanishing wilderness and the plainsman's stubborn devotion to preserving wild species, producing both adventure episodes and a contemplative portrait of frontier skill and yearning.