Description
The national Flora and fauna refuge that’s the focal point of the book used to be some of the first established by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and as an alternative the harsh yet scenic area became the nation’s first bison refuge, established to keep this American icon from slipping into extinction.
As of late the refuge hosts more than 1,000,000 visitors a year, most of them coming to hike the trails, climb the rocks, photograph bison and prairie dogs, or simply commune with a beautiful, wild area that remains a non secular landscape for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who call it home.