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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Iconby: Steven Rinella  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.96 You Save: $5.99 (24%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: MP3 CDDewey Decimal Number: 599.643 EAN: 9781423374169 Edition: MP3 Una Format: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN: 1423374169 Label: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: December 02, 2008 Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Release Date: December 02, 2008 Studio: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, December 2008: Before the 18th century, the American buffalo was the largest land mammal in North America, largely predator-free and roaming the continent in numbers estimated in excess of 40 million. 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. 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. Rinella's history is deftly interwoven with his own literal buffalo hunt in Alaska's Wrangell mountains, complete with grizzly bears, raging, ice-rimmed rivers, and bouts of hypothermia and frostbite. Written in a spare style appropriate to the rigors of the frozen wilderness, American Buffalo is engrossing, informative, funny, and a welcome achievement of both natural history and outdoor adventure. --Jon Foro Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lots of Facts About Buffalo But Lacks CohesionI enjoyed the first several chapters of this book but after that it seemed somewhat tedious and repetitious in places. I can say one thing, I learned a lot about Bison! Much of it was interesting to me to be sure but I dislike being cornered by trivia addicts and at times while reading this book I felt exactly like that. The author is quite obsessed with the huge creatures. He states that fact himself early on and the plethora of minutia in the book certainly proves out his assertions. ... Read More Rating:  - an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imaginationDon't let this icon become lost. This book is an excellent account of the buffalos history. Very informative is parts, very disturbing in others. Rating: - Rugged Tale of Wildlife Wrapped in American HistoryBuffalo are most famous in today's world for their appearance on the buffalo nickel. That they once roamed the North American plains by the millions is known only from movies, books, and oral histories. Rinella does an excellent job of detailing his obsession with the buffalo, starting with his winning of the lottery to hunt buffalo in Alaska, then interspersing the story of his hunt with the history of buffalo and their predation by Native Americans and later immigrants to the US. Read More Rating:  - Looking Beyond The Rifle's ScopeWhile Steven Rinella's "American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon" might appear to be nothing more than a book about hunting and successfully killing a buffalo, the reader needs only to delve into the first few pages to realize that this ain't just another episode of Buck McNeely (non-hunters will probably miss this reference). In reality, Rinella's book is about a successful hunt, but it is about much, much more as well. The book begins with Rinella having successfuly bagged his target and debating ... Read More Rating: - Bison bison 101This book, on the face of it an account of the author's successful solo buffalo hunt in Alaska, is a surprisingly good read. I expected a sort of elongated article from Field & Stream, but I got a whole lot more. Steven Rinella, a writer originally from Michigan, was a winner in a lottery to hunt buffalo in Alaska, whose herd is sizable enough to cull through hunting. Only 24 permits were issued; only 4 hunters actually bagged a buffalo. And it isn't a job for sissies; Mr Rinella's account of ... Read More 
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