The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, Yellowstone Vic Smith. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, he lived a colorful life across the American frontier from the 1870s to 1890s. A classic frontiersman, he was a trapper, dispatch rider, scout, trick shot and, yes, buffalo hunter extraordinaire. Discovered in Harvard University s Houghton Library in 1990, this remarkable autobiography which Smith wrote in the third person is comparable to Andrew Garcia s Tough Trip through Paradise, but, notes the editor, without the...