false 2595763 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2595763 1 2617735 2 12 2008 American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon total:120|5:23|4:48|3:35|2:12|1:2| 120 438 241 51 267770 3.85 236 80 56902351 586208 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 2 false Thu May 21 17:35:15 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 17:49:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45580181 1510307 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 13:09:54 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 13:19:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 39573907 145402 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 0 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 23:14:04 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:38:03 -0800 2008
I was not disappointed. In 2005, Richella was one of 24 hunters selected in a lottery to hunt b...more...]]> 59030580 271612 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:22:40 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:29:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 49119076 42005 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 22:01:28 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 22:18:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 49895782 1929917 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 3 0 false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:46:15 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 23:32:58 -0700 2009 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 tha...more...]]> 44875766 792329 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 1 false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 12:31:44 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 15:30:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 50274089 349438 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 2 0 false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:09:35 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 06:20:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 43037614 1007747 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 5 0 false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 12:52:40 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 06:36:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46571899 1986315 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 5 0 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 17:27:31 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 17:31:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42723748 921073 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 3 0 false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 16:47:01 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 05:40:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 41174794 565487 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 08:19:05 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 06:48:03 -0800 2009 some better pop sci buffalo books are, well not the greatest, but others are:

better "A buffalo in the house :the tr...more...]]> 15711285 349472 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 3 0 false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 12:30:19 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 10 11:51:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 47952780 1181262 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 0 false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:25:12 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:28:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 49839915 1680462 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 3 0 false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 21:56:18 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 22:02:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 48261349 935983 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 5 0 false Wed Mar 04 16:51:40 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:54:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 75963948 2885243 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 2 0 false Tue Oct 27 20:09:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:11:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64247344 295609 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 2 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 12:28:53 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 12:31:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 39055267 929080 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

]]> 2008 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 15:03:32 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 14:38:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 65823376 326171 2595763 0385521685 9780385521680 51 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-m-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/25/763/2595763-s-1256026349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595763.American_Buffalo_In_Search_of_a_Lost_Icon 3.65 120 In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. 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 hundreds; even to the Bronx Zoo, where legend has it a depressed buffalo served 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 history, science, and the natural world. And yet it also tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.  

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