American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella - A blockbuster collector's classic!

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 beasts 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. Rinellas history is deftly interwoven with his own literal buffalo hunt in Alaskas 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

A blockbuster collector's classic!
AMERICAN BUFFALO: In search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
Audio book review; narrator, Patrick G. Lawler
Factual historical excellence extensively researched and refined;
Bouncing the philosophical ball off the proverbial historical wall, author Steven Rinella climbed mountains, trekked the prairies, penetrated the savage forests and forged wild rivers in sweltering heat and freezing bone numbing cold, blooding his hands to deliver this unmatched epic story to you.

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