John R. Cook was an American original. He witnessed or 
participated in a string of important events that shaped the nation 
and sculpted the history of the West. Born in Ohio in 1844, Cook 
moved with his family to Kansas. He joined the Union Army at 
sixteen and fought along the Kansas-Missouri border, in Indian 
Territory, and in Arkansas. After the Civil War, he ventured out to 
establish a homestead and work cattle. Several hardships forced 
Cook to try his luck at various enterprises. He became a prospector 
in New Mexico, a buffalo hunter in Texas and Kansas, and an Indian 
fighter.
 
    Santa Fe, Adobe Walls, Fort Elliot, and Rath City were among 
Cook's Great Plains haunts. His accounts of the 1878 Hunters War 
against Comanche leader Black Horse and the battle of Yellow 
House Canyon near present-day Lubbock are rare glimpses into the 
last great effort of the Comanche people to maintain their way of life. 
He eventually found employment as a government scout and guide 
with the army.

    In later years, Cook recorded his adventures in a modest volume, 
The Border and the Buffalo, first published in a small edition in 1907. 
Historians quickly recognized it as one of the most important first-
hand accounts about buffalo hunting ever written. The organization of 
hunts, camp routines, and marketing of the buffalo hides are all 
described in detail.

    Award-winning author and Texas historian James L. Haley 
provides a new foreword in this reprint edition of this classic of 
Texana.

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