Audubon Magazine, Editors' Choice:
"Michael Punke’s meticulously researched Last Stand chronicles the transformation of the Great Plains from untouched wilderness in the mid-19th century to a land, less than 30 years later, where the future of wildlife hung in the balance. Punke, a Montana native and a former Washington lawyer, clearly describes the forces that brought the buffalo to the brink of extinction, the individuals who fought to save the species, and how these events helped give rise to America’s first wave of conservation."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
"Punke deserves great credit for resurrecting Grinnell from the scrapheap of history and fostering new respect for a person whose name adorns landmarks in Glacier National Park, another legacy."

NewWest.net:  
"Last Stand is a page-turner... I rushed to get through the nail-biting chapters that detail the efforts of Yellowstone’s rangers to prevent poachers from killing the few remaining wild buffalo while they waited for political support from Washington...  This is great stuff... the book offers an inspiring message about the possibilities for conservation that can still exist even after all hope seems lost, as long as a few passionate individuals persevere until the general public is swayed."

Alan K. Simpson, former US Senator from Wyoming:
"Last Stand is all that Western history should be:  a good old rip-roaring adventure with buffalo, Indians, Yellowstone, cavalry, hunting, Cody, Custer, Roosevelt -- why, hell, there's even dinosaurs!" 

Dallas Morning News:
"Author Michael Punke of Montana, where buffalo have always roamed, has caused George Bird Grinnell to spring to life in this masterful portrait of a protector of buffalo and the true 'Father of American Conservation.'"

Missoula Independent:
"Last Stand reads like an action novel bolstered by exhaustive first-rate scholarship."