You know what’s cool about this book, Buffalo Song? I first wrote a version of it for one publisher. And my editor then moved to another publisher and the name was changed of the book. It was originally called The Man Who Loved Buffalo. Then it became The Buffalo Orphans. Then my editor moved to another publisher and dropped the book. In the meantime, I had a time, an opportunity to work with the Salish Kootenai people and to get more information about the story.
So, when I wrote it the last time and it was published by Lee and Low, this is so much better than those two earlier books would have been. Although if you look at some bibliographies of mine, you’ll see two books listed that don’t exist, The Man Who Loved Buffalo and The Buffalo Orphans, actually Buffalo Song.