"'Buffalo!' The old horseman struggled to his feet and boldly began his toast with glass held high, his weather—worn visage conspicuous in the room full of young men. Then 'BUFFALO,' this time more quietly. Then, after a long pause, 'buffalo,' almost in a whisper..."Thus Garrett Wilson introduces his epic account of the 1870s, a decade that saw unprecedented changes come to the Great Plains of North America: famine, fire, and pestilence—the disappearance of the buffalo—the last stand of the Sioux and the Metis—the Boundary Survey and the "March West" of the North—West Mounted Police—men like Dumont, Walsh, Macleod, and Sitting Bull—all encompassed within a brief 10 years, which saw the disappearance of the Old West, and the birth of a new society.Told with wit, sensitivity, and panache, Frontier Farewell explodes old myths and brings new perspectives to this pivotal era in the development of the North American West.