While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta, as a wildlife-saving effort, the political climate of the early twentieth century worked against it.The Canadian Parks Branch was never sufficiently funded to run the park effectively or to remedy the crises the animals faced as a result. Cross-breeding experiments with bison and domestic cattle proved unfruitful. Attempts at commercializing the herd had no success. Ultimately, the Department of National Defence repurposed the park for military training and the bison disappeared once more. This book sheds light on the history of Canada's national parks, bison recovery efforts, and environmental thought in the first half of the twentieth century.