The Buffalo Tail
Author: Daniel T. Kelly (Jr.)
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1457511045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel T. Kelly (Jr.)
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1457511045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tom McHugh
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780803281059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the natural history of the American buffalo and its crucial role in the life of the Great Plains Indian
Author: Pernille Gooch
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789189078536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steven Rinella
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0385526857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.” A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the odds—there’s only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful—Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered 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 buffalo’s place in the American experience. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mid-1890s only a few hundred remained. Now that the buffalo is on the verge of a dramatic ecological recovery across the West, Americans are faced with the challenge of how, and if, we can dare to share our land with a beast that is the embodiment of the American wilderness. American Buffalo is a narrative tale of Rinella’s 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 Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World’s 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 Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, where a depressed buffalo named Black Diamond met his fate after serving 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 a quirky blend of facts and observations about history, biology, and the natural world. Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos.
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-10-10
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520925144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a new epilogue Though the Plains have been in economic and population decline since the twenties, they are actually within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country. This visionary book offers a constructive alternative to the decline of cattle ranching, depletion of underground water, and dependency on outside energy sources. It shows how bringing back the hardy, majestic bison and using the region's winds to generate power are keys to renewed economic and social health for Plains communities.
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joachim Fromhold
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-07-19
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 035978027X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guidebook to historic pre 1900 AD aboriginal points of interest in the Buffalo Lake area of Alberta with special reference to the Mountain Cree history. Suitable for self- guided touring. Covering parts of Lacombe, Ponoka, Camrose and Stettler counties. 110 pages.