American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains Audiobook (Free)

America’s Great Plains once possessed among the grandest animals spectacles from the world, equaled only by such areas while the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, crazy horses, and grizzly bears: significantly less than two hundred years ago these creatures been around in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, “it is impossible to describe and even conceive the vast multitudes of the animals.”

In a function that is simultaneously a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid family portrait of each of these animals within their glory-and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them as a result of marketplace hunters and ranchers, and ultimately, a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.