American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001MXQ7BK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Rinella’s erudition and exuberance, combined with his gift for storytelling, make him the perfect guide for a book that combines outdoor adventure with history, science, and the natural world. One of only four hunters that year who succeeded in killing a buffalo, he carried the carcass down a snow-covered mountainside and floated it four miles down a white-water canyon while being trailed by grizzly bears and suffering from hypothermia. Through this experience, Rinella found himself contemplating his own place among the 14,000 years’ worth of buffalo hunters in North America and the place of the buffalo in the American consciousness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of that 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 Strait Land Bridge; to buffalo jumps, where Native Americans ran buffalo over cliffs by the h
A must read for hunters and non-hunters alike. Adam W Excellent writing by Steven Rinella. A mix of American history, a once in a lifetime hunt, friendship, brotherhood and his quest to fill his freezer with some of the most incredible meat one can procure. I really enjoyed this book and have bought several copies for friends. Steve has been br. Buffalo Steve Whatever tiny inkling I might have had to go into the wild and be one with nature was snuffed out by Mr. Rinella's 'American Buffalo'. The self-effacing hunter's memoir about tracking and killing a buffalo in Alaska is vividly retold. Interesting history and facts about the animal are inters. Highly recommended I first became aware of Steven through his tv show MeatEater. I greatly enjoy his intellectual curiosity and thoughtful approach to hunting and eating game animals. This book covers so much ground, documenting the history of the bison and of early native American life and the effects of the
--Jon Foro. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon is his fascinating chronicle, beginning with a search for Black Diamond (the doomed model for the Buffalo Nickel) and including an exploration of "buffalo jumps" (where thousands were run over cliffs by Native American hunters), and tales of bone piles--harvested from the plains for a thriving fertilizer industry--stacked 10 feet high, 20 feet wide, and a half-mile long. In just over a century, widespread slaughter reduced the population to a few hundred head, and the American West lay beneath a till of bleached bones. When Steven Rinella stumbled over a buffalo skull in Yellowstone National Park, it sparked an obsessive search for the beast's past, from its migration across the Bering land bridge to its near extinction at the hands of western settlers. Rinella's history is deftly interwoven with his own literal buffalo hunt in Alaska's Wrangell mountains, complete with grizzly