One colonel, four years earlier, had told a wealthy hunter who felt a shiver of guilt after he shot 30 bulls in one trip: “Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.” ...

One hunter, Orlando Brown brought down nearly 6,000 buffalo by himself and lost ... “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” Sheridan denied he had ever said such a thing.

cutting down an elderly buffalo herder last week. Searchers found just part of one arm and one leg. The tiger left the buffalos unharmed. When he finds her, he said, he will shoot her dead.

I've written about Growing up Dead in Texas and Mongrels ... but I wanted to put my humble credentials behind this statement: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is Jones' masterpiece.