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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, an...more 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.(less)

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Published December 2nd 2008 by Spiegel & Grau

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May 07, 2013 Pat Padden rated it 5 of 5 stars

I once saw Steven Rinella interviewed. He told a story about how, one Christmas shortly after he was married, he preceded his wife home to his parents' house for the holidays, leaving her to follow along behind, bearing the Christmas gifts for the family, and a cooler packed with game that Steven had shot on hunting trips and carefully laid aside for the holidays. When his wife got to the airport, she discovered that the flight she was taking was overcrowded, and she had to make a decision: eith...more

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Feb 06, 2013 Peter Fortune rated it 3 of 5 stars

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The author has entered a lottery giving him the right to play a game: only two percent of players win the right o play, and of those only twenty percent win the game--so he can anticipate a four percent chance of winning. What is the game? It is the right to hunt and kill one buffalo in the state of Alaska. Yes, Rinnella is a hunter who wants the chance to canoe far down an Alaska river carrying hundreds of pounds of gear, hump that gear to a hunting site well inland, wait patiently for a rare c...more

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Jun 23, 2012 Leslie rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is part natural history, part hunting adventure. The author won a lottery for a limited-draw permit to hunt Bison in Alaska. He had always been fascinated by these animals, and with luck and determination he was provided the chance to hunt one.
Throughout the book, his quest for a bison is enriched with an in-depth look at bison evolution, dangers to its survival, and almost total destruction by mankind. Some parts of the book are humorous, others scary, and some of the language or des...more

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May 28, 2012 D1wata rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: hunters, anthropologists

Really really like what author did with this subject. I got it on a whim ($1 cart) at the Strand, and I honestly didn't think I'd read it before I re-donated it. But Rinella took a topic that's just sort of interesting to me, and did a lot with it. It's part memoir, history, science, Native American relations, American history, anthropology, ecology, environmental, travel (to Alaska wilderness), and food. Author could have been very annoying, since the premise was pretty transparently driven by...more

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Dec 11, 2011 Zach Matthews rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I'm an outdoor writer (fly fishing magazines), so I have what you might call a professional appreciation for Rinella and his work. I've also interviewed him and I like him personally. Clearly, I am squarely in his target demographic, a hunter and fisherman as well as someone who is forced by realistic circumstances to live in a big city (Atlanta).

All that said, this is my favorite of the "microhistories" which have weighed down booksellers' shelves in recent years, in large part because Rinella...more

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Nov 08, 2011 Taylor Farris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Steven Rinella has created a masterpiece with American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon. From the very beginning Steven draws you in with his personal story with buffalo. The book itself is a very well written book. At the same time Steven weaves together two stories constantly changing between the present and the harsh past that buffalo have faced.
Since the author changes back and forth between stories one would assume that this is a very hard book to follow. This is not the case. The book it...more Steven Rinella has created a masterpiece with American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon. From the very beginning Steven draws you in with his personal story with buffalo. The book itself is a very well written book. At the same time Steven weaves together two stories constantly changing between the present and the harsh past that buffalo have faced.
Since the author changes back and forth between stories one would assume that this is a very hard book to follow. This is not the case. The book itself is a very well ordered and a very well told story. In the parts of the book in which Steven talks about the history of buffalo it is structured with dates. Not all of the dates are on order but this has to be so to make the story flow. The book is ordered by fascinating chapters each one beholding its own bit of interesting facts and a continuation of the intriguing story.
Many people will ask if a book is for them. If you enjoy a perfectly written nonfiction book, written in the first person and enjoy hunting as well as a fascinating integration of history tied to it ten this is definitely the book for you.
The story begins with telling how the author, Steven Rinella first started his obsession with buffalo. The story talks about his first encounter when he unearthed a half of a buffalo skull which ignited his passion for the majestic animal. The book cavers his back story of how he has always been a hunter and was beaming when he won a lottery permit to track, hunt for and kill a single buffalo in the Alaskan wilderness. While on his journey in Alaska Steven portrays a perfect picture of the history of buffalo and the Native Americans connection to the animal. Native Americans aren’t the only people who have affected the buffalo’s history. Steven does an amazing job of going into great detail of every hardship and triumph of the buffalo. Steven also goes on to talk about prehistoric buffalo and how the buffalo’s shape, size and features have changed over the ages. It is fascinating to read. Overall it was a wonderful pleasure reading about Steven’s journey and his amazing story and history with buffalo.(less)

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Nov 08, 2011 Ian Kerns rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Great American Icon

American Buffalo by Steven Rinella is an intriguing narrative about the author’s journey to investigate the buffalo and its history. The history of the buffalo is not well understood. The book was well constructed; Rinella puts various bouts of humor into his adventure in Alaska, while still making the volume factual and engaging. The plot, however, got repetitive. There were only so many times that he could follow uninhabited buffalo trails. The one time he does find a...more The Great American Icon

American Buffalo by Steven Rinella is an intriguing narrative about the author’s journey to investigate the buffalo and its history. The history of the buffalo is not well understood. The book was well constructed; Rinella puts various bouts of humor into his adventure in Alaska, while still making the volume factual and engaging. The plot, however, got repetitive. There were only so many times that he could follow uninhabited buffalo trails. The one time he does find a buffalo; he shoots it and skins it. He is kind of attached to buffalo and when he killed one, he felt “somewhat guilty”. The buffalo had life just like he did, and he took it away. Up until that, he pretty much walks across a river about seven times.

The depths that Rinella goes to in order to explore the history of the buffalo in the USA and Canada are astounding. He pays over a thousand dollars to carbon date a piece of bone he found in order to determine if he has a rare bone, but he didn’t, and he saw it as a waste of money.

I believe the author’s intention in retelling his adventure is to entertain his readers while still providing accurate information and teaching the audience as well. While slow in some parts, others had you reading for an hour or two at a time. This story follows a chronological pattern as it tells the happenings of about a seven month period. This novel is an account where if you have experienced something like hunting in alaska or camping for a month, you really enjoy the tale, but it’s lost on us that haven’t.

There was only one fallacy that i notice, because the book was mainly historical fact. This was the complex cause fallacy. The humans hunting the buffalo is described as the cause of drop in the species population, when in reality, the climate change, illness, and other natural causes like predators such as wolves played their part. This nonfiction piece was well written and was somewhat humorous, but also had too many facts and not enough entertaining material. I would recommend this as a must read for people wanting to learn, but definitely not to readers looking for a cool, fun adventure.
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Feb 13, 2011 Scott Taylor rated it 4 of 5 stars

Enthralling from the beginning to the end. Rinella manages an ode to the buffalo told in the context of myth, history and science. And relates his own personal journey from the discovery of a buried buffalo skull in a Montana forest to a grueling hunt for buffalo in the wilds of the Alaskan wilderness.

In all the stories and anecdotes provided, there is both knowledge and entertainment. Humor is plentiful here, though perhaps not as emphasized as one might find in a book by Bryson. The author's s...more

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May 21, 2009 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

We humans have little comprehension and find it difficult to make sensible decisions when we are confronted with what I will refer to as the efficacy of booms. The slaughtering of 50,000 buffalo in a single day or J. Wright Mooar personally killing 25,000 in a lifetime and their virtual disappearance and near extinction is terribly sad. Buffalo/Bison -- Rinella tells us they are genetically one and the same -- ranged from southern Alaska through the 4 western provinces of Canada and 36 states al...more We humans have little comprehension and find it difficult to make sensible decisions when we are confronted with what I will refer to as the efficacy of booms. The slaughtering of 50,000 buffalo in a single day or J. Wright Mooar personally killing 25,000 in a lifetime and their virtual disappearance and near extinction is terribly sad. Buffalo/Bison -- Rinella tells us they are genetically one and the same -- ranged from southern Alaska through the 4 western provinces of Canada and 36 states all the way to Northern Mexico. Perhaps the most numerous land mammal to ever exist on the face of the earth; somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty two million lived on the Great Plains alone. Out of our own insatiable greed we came dangerously close to eliminating all of them and killed them not even for their meat but mostly for their skins and hides. A group of Indians gathered 2,550 tons of buffalo bones near a railroad in anticipation of shipment to eastern markets. In Colorado there was a mound of bones ten feet high, twenty feet wide and a half mile long; one in Kansas had similar dimensions but was only a quarter of a mile long and another mound in Detroit was thirty feet high and hundreds of feet long. Reading about the carnage almost made me sick and if you can recall that one particular scene on the open plains in the movie “Dances with Wolves” you get the picture of the wanton slaughter.

There are so many more instances where we have been incapable of handling the efficacy of booms. Throughout our history we have squandered our resources of plenty; even our current economic crises, stimulated by the same attitudes and failings, stands as a prime example.

This book was full of interesting facts and lore of the iconic buffalo but some of the details were quite graphic. Interspersed was the author’s own tale of a licensed buffalo hunt on the Copper River in southern Alaska and that part was just a side story from the books main theme. Rinella concludes that the Buffalo confronts our innermost thoughts with confounding contradictions. That it is a symbol of the tenacity of wilderness and destruction of wilderness; of Indian culture and the death of Indian culture; of strength and vitality and our pettiness and greed.

“Black Diamond” was the name of the Buffalo who served as the model for the Buffalo Nickel coined in 1913 and which nickels now rest secure and treasured in our dresser drawers.(less)

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Feb 24, 2011 Magila rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

there were a number of times i couldn't help but feel like the information provided about the great big buffalo was superfluous. take for example reproduction, gonads, and the like. really? really? i will permanently have the image of a bull buffalo mounted on a cow, and the bull's back hooves popping off the ground in his moment of animalistic ecstasy. and now you will too!

i expected more about the quest, one man's efforts to legally hunt a buffalo and his experience. what i got was a bit of a...more

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Feb 06, 2009 Kyra rated it 4 of 5 stars

Okay so I don't hunt. Nor am I remotely attracted to or interested in buffalo. So why did I like this book ? First of all, there is something to be said for what Alex Gram once said to me: If you can't or are not prepared to kill it, you shouldn't eat it. I understand the intent behind that belief, I just have never had to test it. So back to the book: the author wins one of the few & desirable permits to find & shoot a buffalo in a remote wilderness area in Alaska. The book follows the...more

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Dec 15, 2008 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Initially, I was put off by this book. I did not think I was interested in a hunting memoir. However, I have always been fascinated by the buffalo and, eventually, decided to read this book.

I was not disappointed. In 2005, Richella was one of 24 hunters selected in a lottery to hunt buffalo near Alaska's Wrangell Mountains. The book is in part the story of that hunt. But, it is much more than that. It is the story of a man and his obsession with an animal that he loves and reveres. This obsessio...more

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Jan 13, 2010 Tripp rated it 5 of 5 stars

American Buffalo is such a great read that I am surprised I haven't heard of it sooner (presumptuous of me, I know). The book is part memoir, part meditation on the American relationship with nature, part social commentary and part outdoor adventure tale. It takes quite a writer to weave that many strands together in a short book without derailing the narrative, but Steven Rinella makes it look easy.

Rinella's tone is that of a self deprecating conversationalist. He hops from topic to topic with...more

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Jun 09, 2009 Jkimballcook Cook rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history

This book was super enjoyable. Two parts John Krakauer, one part Norman Maclean, with a dash of Cormac McCarthy and a pinch of Sarah Vowell. This book is about Rinella's obsession (one which I share) with the American Bison. He goes some into the natural and cultural history of the buffalo in America---how they came here, and what we've done with them, both physically and culturally---and then describes his own relationship with the beast. The latter part of the book is his own experience huntin...more

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Nov 18, 2012 Clint Cypert rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: hunting, non-fiction

I have enjoyed reading Steven Rinella's articles in outdoor magazines over the last few years. I am also a fan of his TV show MeatEater, so I decided to purchase this book and I was not disappointed. The author takes you on his journey to kill a buffalo after he drew a tag for a public land hunt in Alaska.
Buffalo are the one species of mammals that I think of whenever I think about the Old West and I have always enjoyed learning about and seeing buffalo. Rinella writes about his fascination with...more

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Mar 12, 2009 Noah rated it 4 of 5 stars

This guy could have written a straight up history of the buffalo as a species (which he also does here to an extent), but he lucked out and got a chance to legally hunt a buffalo in Alaska, which makes the story all the more powerful. I've never hunted and never will, but reading Rinella's account of his own hunt gave me a whole new respect for people who do it the right way. He's no trophy hunter, and when you read about the difficult butchering process and how Rinella attempts to use as many p...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Kyle Iverson rated it 4 of 5 stars

American Buffalo is an enlightening tale of America’s most iconic beast. We follow author Steven Rinella’s Journey to unlock the truth about buffalo. He seamlessly mends past present and future into an interesting narrative that spans countless generations. His journey into the Alaskan wilderness leaps into the buffalo’s historic and biologic past, as well as its mysterious future. The story is structured to follow Rinella’s buffalo hunt but integrates flashbacks to his previous experiences as w...more American Buffalo is an enlightening tale of America’s most iconic beast. We follow author Steven Rinella’s Journey to unlock the truth about buffalo. He seamlessly mends past present and future into an interesting narrative that spans countless generations. His journey into the Alaskan wilderness leaps into the buffalo’s historic and biologic past, as well as its mysterious future. The story is structured to follow Rinella’s buffalo hunt but integrates flashbacks to his previous experiences as well as historical references to further our understanding of the animal he is dealing with. I really enjoy his perspective and how facts explain phenomena that occur throughout the book. The book has a certain rhythm to it and as the story slowly unfolds, you almost look forward to the flashback or history lesson every few pages. What makes the story interesting is the sheer attention to detail and care put in to knowing that we will understand any event that occurs or any jargon included in the story. That being said, it almost felt just a bit too factual in the sense that the story is chopped apart by wordy sections explaining how a certain trait evolved or why the bison survived the end of the Pleistocene. Overall, the structure of the writing complimented the plot and improved my understanding making this book very satisfying and enjoyable to read.
The book touches many feelings as it progresses. Pride, shame, remorse, these feelings and more express the book’s themes. The book is clearly written to explain the history of the buffalo and to highlight its strengths and incredible beauty. The inclusion of a story to give the book a linear path really helps to keep it entertaining as well as accent the main idea. Although the story of Steven’s hunt steals the show while reading, looking back, I forget some plot details but interesting tales of buffalo, Paleo-Indians and hide hunters are clear and add to the main idea and theme. A theme reiterated throughout the book is that people have forgotten the sacred origins of the buffalo and the courage, will and determination necessary for a buffalo hunt. Buffalo have come to represent America and many people seem to forget that. With this fine work Rinella seeks to return the buffalo to their former glory and recapture the American spirit that many have forgotten
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Jun 13, 2011 Joel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

wow, I bought this book because I like the picture of the buffalo on the cover. I always had a thing for buffalo I guess. I read the book during a beautiful day when I could have been off running or doing some exploring, but got lost in the book until I turned the last page. I think the reason for this is that you feel like you are along side the author on his adventure and he doens't really give you a reason to step away. I will look forward to finding more books by this author.

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Apr 13, 2009 Andy rated it 3 of 5 stars

American Buffalo is a wilderness adventure—well, more specifically, it’s a hunting memoir—padded-out to a full-length book with some writing on the natural history of the American bison, an exploration of the author’s obsession with buffalo, and an understanding of the Krakauer-ian force that draws young men (and women) to the remote wilderness. Rinella’s writing can be, at times, eloquent and moving, as when he describes taking part in a spontaneous buffalo vigil with protestors in Yellowstone....more

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Feb 14, 2009 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I wish I could mark this 3.5 stars. Rinella is a good writer and at no point in the book did I ever think to myself, "man, I wish I was done reading this book so I can read something else." Essentially, the book is about the author hunting a buffalo, but he mixes in the entire history of the buffalo and it's relationship to man. I liked the history parts, the hunting parts dragged a little (five or six chapters could be summed up by "I hiked around, shot a buffalo, was really cold, cut up the bu...more

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Mar 25, 2009 Kirsten rated it 2 of 5 stars

I heard an interview with the author on NPR and bought this book for my father. I have to say, he sounded a lot more articulate and focused in the interview than he does in the book. This book rambles a lot about buffalo and their place in the American psyche and little trivia bits, but it also goes on at great length about a buffalo hunt (the author drew a buffalo tag in an Alaskan hunting lottery), and that part was frankly boring to me. He also tended to insert a lot of himself into those sec...more

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Jan 26, 2009 Steve rated it 5 of 5 stars

A fascinating book about one man's account of his own search for a buffalo (he drew a tag for one in Alaska) masterfully blended with a historical review of the American buffalo. Written in a no-nonsense style the book is at times gritty- as he describes the challenge of getting into a remote part of Alaska to find wild buffalo, while at others keenly insightful- as he reviews the history of the buffalo. And the historical backdrop is overwhelming. Its difficult to justify the horrific cultural...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Beau Smith rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is part adventure book, part hunting book, part history book and all wonderful. Author Steven Rinella not only takes you on his hunt for Buffalo in Alaska, but he gives you all kinds of history on the animal that should be America's national animal. Rinella does a wonderful job in making you feel as though he is sitting across the table from you sharing his story and adventure. One can only imagine a couple of cold beers sitting in front of you.

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May 12, 2010 Mklosner2 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Whether you are a hunter, or not, an ecological minded individual, or not, this book will put you into both the food chain and the history of this this country (the U.S.)and it's dominion over land and beast. Although an avid and skilled hunter, Rinella does not separate himself from that which he hunts and kills. He proudly eats his prey accompanied with great spiritual awareness. His awareness of animals -especially the buffalo, at the same time separates and makes him one with all people, eve...more

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Apr 24, 2013 Aaron J rated it 5 of 5 stars

An outstanding piece of natural history and outdoors adventure writing. I'm a lifelong hunter and wish every hunting book were half as good as this. If hunting is to persist and resume its place in human culture and society, we need hunter writers like Steven Rinella. If you are a non-hunter and, like this hunter, have been disturbed by much of what passes as hunting 'literature' these days, I urge you to read this book. I think it will give you a hint of what some hunters feel, and an understan...more

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Jan 20, 2010 Steve rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nature, history

A fascinating read, and despite struggling through the earlier chapters I ultimately found it really satisfying. Later chapters focused on the details of the author's own buffalo hunt are strongest, because the details of history are woven into the forward momentum of his narrative. Earlier chapters of historical background often lacked that momentum, becoming catalogs of facts and figures without a clear throughline, and that made the dramatic amount of description feel overdone (e.g., an extra...more

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Feb 17, 2009 Jonathan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-nature

Rinella seems to be at his best when he is narrating his hunting escapades. Unfortunately, this book is only partly a hunting narrative. The other part of this book is a history of the buffalo in America. As a history book it is somewhat interesting, but Rinella is no scholar, and writing memoirs is much more his area of expertise (which is why his previous book was much more enjoyable). Also, it seems that there just isn't enough buffalo history to fill a book. Even with Rinella's adventures in...more

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May 18, 2011 Helen Mccarthy rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a very interesting book that explores the natural history and adaptations of the largest land mammal in North America, the buffalo. It also relates how the demise of this iconic animal came about. In doing so, it explores aspects of American history in the 19th century. His narrative forms around his own private buffalo hunt in Alaska, where he has won a hunting permit for one buffalo; this hunt takes on something of Herculean task for the author. Someone had left it at my house ,and I p...more

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Jan 05, 2009 Tuck rated it 3 of 5 stars

pretty good and a good read if you do not know much about buffalo, history, or environmentalism. also he shoots and kills a cow in alaska, so there is that too.
some better pop sci buffalo books are, well not the greatest, but others are:

better "A buffalo in the house :the true story of a man, an animal, and the American West" by R.D. Rosen. new press 2007

not as good "Last stand :George Bird Grinnell, the battle to save the buffalo, and the birth of the new West" by Michael Punke. that s word pub...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Madeline rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is kindof like meeting a cute guy at a party and wondering why nobody else is talking to him. Then you realize why b/c he keeps talking and talking and talking and rambling and entertaining noone but himself with his limitless amount of detail and running off on tangents that you definitely don't want to follow him off on but there is just no time to break in and even mention needing a bathroom break. Finally you manage to get that bathroom break, but then you realize he might be a dia...more

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