American Buffalo: In Search Of A Lost Icon,New

A Hunt For The American Buffalo, An Immensely Readable (Los Angeles Times) Examination Of An Animal That Has Haunted The National Imaginationfrom The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author And Host Of Netflixs Meateaterboth A Fascinating Piece Of Outdoor Writing And A Gonzo Meditation On The History Of The Mighty Beast In Our National Life.Milwaukee Journal Sentinela San Francisco Chronicle Best Book Of The Yearin 2005, Steven Rinella Won A Lottery Permit To Hunt For A Wild Buffalo, Or American Bison, In The Alaskan Wilderness. Despite The Oddstheres Only A 2 Percent Chance Of Drawing The Permit, And Fewer Than 20 Percent Of Those Hunters Are Successfulrinella Managed To Kill A Buffalo On A Snowcovered 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 Buffalos Place In The American Experience.American Buffalo Is A Narrative Tale Of Rinellas 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 Buffalos Past, Present, And Future: To The Bering Land Bridge, Where Scientists Search For Buffalo Bones Amid Artifacts Of The New Worlds 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 Manhattans Meatpacking District, Where A Depressed Buffalo Named Black Diamond Met His Fate After Serving As The Model For The Nickel.Both A Captivating Narrative And A Book Of Environmental And Historical Significance, American Buffalo Tells Us As Much About Ourselves As It Does About The Creature Who Perhaps Best Of All Embodies The American Ethos.Winner Of The Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award