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The speaker discusses how some hide hunters recorded their experiences later in life. John Cook published this memoir in 1907 about his experiences as a hide hunter. During the Civil War, Cook fought for the Union along the Missouri-Kansas border, and from fall 1874 to spring 1878, he hunted buffalo in the Texas Panhandle. The speaker notes that Cook's descriptions of the day-to-day business of hunting and skinning are vividly detailed.

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A memoir published in 1905 by buffalo hunter John Cook. Flores discusses this book as the source of the famous (but likely fabricated) story about General Philip Sheridan's speech to the Texas legislature about buffalo hunting. The book was written during the conservation period when buffalo hunters were being criticized.