Introduction -- Early buffalo in North America -- North American variants of the buffalo and their geographical distribution -- The climates and topography of buffalo habitat -- The 'Buffalo Year' -- Some buffalo 'characteristics' -- Agencies destructive to buffalo, other than man, I -- Agencies destructive to buffalo, other than man, II -- The European discovery of the buffalo -- The buffalo habitat and its historical chronology: west of the Rocky Mountains in the United States -- The historical habitat of plains and wood buffalo in Canada -- The numbers of the buffalo: the Red River hunt -- The numbers of the buffalo: the destruction of the Southern Herd -- The numbers of the buffalo: the destruction of the Northern Herd in the United States -- The numbers of the buffalo: the final extermination in Western Canada -- The numbers of the buffalo: some suggestions towards the total aggregate -- The 'regular migration' -- Irregular migrations -- The influence of the buffalo environment upon Indian mentality -- Concluding summary --
Appendixes: Buffalo synonymy: European names; Indian names; Indian animal names [ by tribe ]; Alphabetical index of Indian tribal 'buffalo'-forms
Early buffalo domestication
Buffalo ritualism in Indian life
Estimates of Indian populations subsisting wholly or partly on buffalo
Buffalo, Indian, and legislation
Buffalo as a possible influence in the development of prairie lands
Fossil bison in British Columbia
Pemmican and buffalo meat at the fur posts
Musk-ox (and other species) as 'buffalo'
Buffalo in the Rocky Mountain passes
Preference of Indians and white men for buffalo cows
Buffalo hide, meat, and bone traffic
Game in Western Canada other than buffalo
Late survival of Indian archery
Multiplicity of Indian languages
Indian tipis or 'teepees'
Sioux and Assiniboine kinship
Indian stone rings and pound sites
Indian wastefulness with buffalo
Intelligence versus herd-instinct in buffalo and other animals
