The Last Buffalo

Poetry Book 2007
By Bruce Roseland

The Last Buffalo is my effort to record what has happened to this changing prairie and its effects on my extended family and me. The title, The Last Buffalo, is meant as a metaphor for what I see is a rapidly changing and apparently disappearing way of life. We, the descendants of the prairie settlers, are perhaps like the wild buffalo; unknowing and/or puzzled about the forces that are shaping and changing our environment from the familiar past to an uncertain future.
The wild buffalo are gone. We, in the central part of South Dakota who are engaged with the land are becoming fewer. The Last Buffalo is a tribute to the people who settled this wonderful and in many ways beautiful land, that while having given us bounty has also extracted a human toll for being settled.  Bruce Roseland, author.