American Buffalo

American Buffalo

Author: Steven Rinella

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008-12-02

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0385526857

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainside and then raft the meat back to civilization while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Throughout these adventures, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America, as well as the buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s hunt. But beyond that, it is the story of the many ways in which the buffalo has shaped our national identity. Rinella takes us across the continent in search of the buffalo’s past, present, and future: to the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s earliest human inhabitants; to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran buffalo over cliffs by the thousands; to the Detroit Carbon works, a “bone charcoal” plant that made fortunes in the late 1800s by turning millions of tons of buffalo bones into bone meal, black dye, and fine china; and even to an abattoir turned fashion mecca in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving as the model for the American nickel. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.


American Buffalo

American Buffalo

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780573640230

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitmate free enterprise. But the reality of the three--Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing; and "Teach"; a violently paranoid braggart--is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.


The Buffalo Book

The Buffalo Book

Author: David Dary

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The journals and memoirs of nineteenth-century explorers and travelers in the American West often told of viewing buffalo massed together as far as the eye could see. This book appropriately covers the subject of the buffalo as extensively as that animal covered the plains. Other recent accounts of the buffalo have focused on two or three aspects, emphasizing its natural history, the hunters and the hunted in prehistoric time, the relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian. David Dary's treatment stretches from horizon to horizon. Of course he discusses the origin of the buffalo in North America, its locations and migrations, its habits, its significance and role in both Indian and white cultures, its near demise, its salvation. But more. Dary weaves throughout his fact-filled book fascinating threads of lore and legend of this animal that literally helped mold who and what America is. Further, in addition to detailing the extinction which almost befell this mythic beast and the attempts to give life again to the herds, Dary concentrates significant attention on the buffalo as part of twentieth-century America in terms of captivity, husbandry, and symbol. The Buffalo Book rounds up all the contemporary buffalo. Dary has located just about every single buffalo alive today in the United States. He has visited or corresponded with everyone who raises a private or government herd, small or large. He maps their location, size, purpose, future. There are even some instructions about how to raise buffalo if one is so inclined. For the gourmet, The Buffalo Book provides a number of recipes, such as Sweetgrass Buffalo and Beer Pie or Buffalo Tips à la Bourgogne. From the buffalo nickel to Wyoming's state flag, from the University of Colorado's mascot to Indiana's state seal, we picture and use the buffalo in hundreds of ways; Dary surveys the nineteenth- and twentieth-century symbolic adaptation of the animal.


The Buffalo Hunters

The Buffalo Hunters

Author: Time-Life Books

Publisher: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Nomads of the great plains, the ways of family and clan, a bounty from the wild beast, the timeless cycle of ceremony.


Buffalo Nation

Buffalo Nation

Author: Valerius Geist

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781610603607

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts.


Buffalo Nation

Buffalo Nation

Author: Ken Zontek

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

American Indian Efforts to restore the Bison.


George Catlin's American Buffalo

George Catlin's American Buffalo

Author: Adam Duncan Harris

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907804328

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Re-examines Catlin's art and his vision of a "nation's park" to protect the buffalo and native American people


Buffalo Wild!

Buffalo Wild!

Author: Deidre Havrelock

Publisher: Annick Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1773215353

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“A satisfying ending ensures this nighttime adventure will soothe even the wildest child.” Kirkus Reviews An exuberant celebration of the Buffalo’s return to the wild. Since Declan was born, his kokum has shared her love of Buffalo through stories and art. But Declan longs to see real Buffalo. Then one magical night, herds of the majestic creatures stampede down from the sky. That’s when things really get wild! Azby Whitecalf’s playful illustrations add to the joy and reverence in Deidre Havrelock’s picture book debut. A reprinting of the Buffalo Treaty and an author’s note describe the importance of Buffalo to Indigenous Peoples and efforts to revitalize the species.


Where the Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam

Author: Anne Matthews

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-11-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780226510965

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Chronicles the campaign by Frank and Deborah Popper to return to the Buffalo Commons on the Great Plains.


Buffalo Bill's America

Buffalo Bill's America

Author: Louis S. Warren

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 030742510X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warren explains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as an army scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experience inspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys, and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades, offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and a remarkably democratic version of its history. This definitive biography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and the startling history of the American West that drove him and his performers to the world stage.