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Blanca Is My Name: Or How I Saved the Buffalo on the Texas Plains
Paperback
Series: Old West Critters Collection, Book 2
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile FictionHistory
ISBN13: 9781964830186
Publisher: Bariso Press
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Blanca was born different-and in the wild, different can be dangerous.
In a thundering sea of dark-coated buffalo, Blanca's snowy white hide makes her impossible to hide and impossible to forget. Teased, shunned, and driven away by the other calves, she grows up lonely on the windswept plains of Texas, longing for one simple gift: to belong.
When her only friend disappears, Blanca must learn to survive on her own in a world growing more perilous by the day because an even greater threat is coming. Hunters are closing in. Herds are falling. The age of the great buffalo nations is collapsing under the advance of settlement and steel.
Yet where others see an outcast, the Comanche see a sign. They believe Blanca is no ordinary buffalo--but a sacred one. A living legend. A symbol of hope. And perhaps the last chance to save her kind from destruction. Can one unusual calf change the fate of the plains? Filled with danger, discovery, frontier history, and heart, Blanca Is My Name brings young readers face-to-face with the drama of the Old West through the eyes of an unforgettable animal hero.
Part of the Old West Critters Collection and recipient of the Elmer Kelton Award from the West Texas Historical Association for best creative work on West Texas, Blanca Is My Name is inspired by real events and real animals from Western history. History lives. Legends run wild. And every critter has a story to tell.
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