American Buffalo
American Buffalo
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American Buffalo $11.99 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. |
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Bison or American Buffalo $49.99 Bison or American Buffalo Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 18 x 24 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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An American Buffalo or Bison $39.99 An American Buffalo or Bison Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 12 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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American Buffalo, 1846 $19.99 American Buffalo, 1846 Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 9 x 12 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Bison, or American Buffalo $39.99 Bison, or American Buffalo Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 12 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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70 Inch (Round) Homespun Tablecloth, Hand Loomed Cotton, Made in USA These classic table coverings in the traditional Tavern Check pattern feature a look that never goes out of style. Loomed with the finest USA grown cotton and made in the mountains of Vermont, each tablecloth, napkin and placemat is individually cut and hand fringed, resulting in a top quality table covering suitable for any decor or occasion. Machine wash in cold water, line dry. IMPORTANT: T… |
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American Expedition 24-Ounce Thermal Mug These 24-Ounce Plastic Thermal Mugs are perfect for accompanying the modern day explorer on any outdoor adventure. The double-walled construction and spill-proof lid helps keep hot beverages hot, and cold beverages cold while working or playing outdoors. Each mug includes a booklet of illustrations and information profiling the product’s featured animal…. |
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Buffalo Bills 2 ounce Square Shot Glass $5.99 You and your friends can enjoy a drink during the big game with these 2 ounce square shot glasses. They feature a photo quality domed team logo…. |
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Unique Cultural Particulars Concerning The American Cigar Company
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Right Proud the Buffalo Soldiers $15.95 New - Action-packed Western, full of humor and colorful character vignettes, recounting pursuit by U.S. 9th Cavalry--the "Buffalo Soldiers"--of marauding Comancheros. Drawn from authentic American history. With illustrations by Frederic Remington. |
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''Laramie'': Or The Queen of Bedlam $0.95 According to Wikipedia: "Charles King (October 12, 1844 in Albany, New York - 17 March 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. King was the son of Civil War general Rufus King, grandson of Columbia University president Charles King, and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West Point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He was wounded in the arm forcing his retirement from the regular army. During this time he became acquainted with Buffalo Bill Cody. King would later write scripts for several of Cody's silents films.... In 1898, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and sailed to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. The fighting with Spain was over by the time he arrived, but he assisted in the surrender negotiations. During the following Philippine-American War, King was placed in command of the 1st Brigade in Henry W. Lawton's division. He led his brigade during the Battle of Manila and sailed for Santa Cruz with Lawton's division. He was incapacitated by sickness during the Battle of Santa Cruz, but he returned to fight in the following Battle of Pagsanjan. He took part in the final major campaigns before the fighting turned primarily to guerilla warfare. He returned to the United States and was active in the Wisconsin National Guard and in training troops for World War I. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are Campaigning with Crook, Fort Frayne, Under Fire and Daughter of the Sioux." |