American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, (Paperback)

from Bitter_Grace

In American Buffalo, Steven Rinella recounts his experience of hunting bison in Alaska after winning a lottery in 2005 for the opportunity to do so. He describes the difficulties of tracking buffalo while avoiding predators such as wolves and grizzlies, as well as the problem of surviving the fri...

from TadAD

At its heart, this is an Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Buffalo: its origins on the continent, paleontological record, biology, range and habitat, 'buffalo' vs. 'bison', sex life, history with Native Americans and European settlers, reasons for hunting close to extinction, traditional...

from janemarieprice

The author's personal search for every experience and bit of information about the buffalo frames this narrative style nonfiction. The story follows the author on a lottery-won buffalo hunt in Alaska. Throughout the descriptions of preparing, camping, tracking, and killing the buffalo are a pleth...

from chilemery

This fantastic story about Bison bison (aka, the American buffalo or bison) and the hunting of said animal is based on a lot of luck. The author and hunter, Steven Rinella, was lucky enough to be awarded one of only 24 hunting permits, was lucky enough to actually be able to make it to the huntin...

from Wrighty

When I first received this book I was curious to see if a hunting enthusiast would write a story that the average, non-hunter could relate to. I wasn't sure if this topic would be interesting to me but I was pleasantly surprised. Steven Rinella wrote a memoir about a lottery he won in 2005 to hun...