The Last Buffalo Hunt and Other Stories
Title | The Last Buffalo Hunt and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | J. I. Merritt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2012-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781591521051 |
Read and relish some of America's greatest outdoor stories and characters in J.I. Merritt's The Last Buffalo Hunt & Other Stories. The stories in this anthology feature legendary Americans as well as some lesser-known figures in history, giving readers a unique first-hand glimpse into the past.
The Last Buffalo Hunter
Title | The Last Buffalo Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Jake Mosher |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781567922264 |
Set in Montana the story revolves around a reticent but articulate teenager who spends his fourteenth summer, remanded to the not so gentle care of his profane and outrageous grandfather, Cole, who seems to be waging an unsuccessful one man war against a whole army of fools.
The Last Buffalo Hunter
Title | The Last Buffalo Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Welsh |
Publisher | Saskatoon : Fifth House |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | American bison |
ISBN | 9781895618389 |
Anecdotes from an oral account of the old North-West by a Métis hunter and trader, Norbert Welsh, who lived through the end times of the buffalo and the early white settlement of the prairies, interacted with men such as Chief Starblanket and Louis Riel, witnessed rituals like the Sun Dance and told how men travelled and lived toward the end of the 19th century in the land that became Saskatchewan.
The Last Buffalo Hunt
Title | The Last Buffalo Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | J.R. Roberts |
Publisher | Speaking Volumes |
Pages | 153 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
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LAW AND ODOR Clint Adams is no stranger to trouble, but it seems to follow his friend Tyrone like a bad smell—and the man's odor is just the problem. Proudly wearing the pelts of the buffalo he hunts, Tyrone "Crapface" Jones may be the most foul-smelling man in the West, and has a way of putting anyone near him in a foul temper. Clint teams up with his old friend for one last buffalo hunt, but when some unkind words lead to a deadly shoot-out, the pair find themselves stuck in the settlement of Woodsdale, where something stinks even worse than Crapface—a political rivalry that's about to get bloody...
My First and Last Buffalo Hunt
Title | My First and Last Buffalo Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas R. Armstrong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | American bison |
ISBN |
Describes battle of August 5, 1873 between the Pawnee Indians and the Sioux.
American Buffalo
Title | American Buffalo PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Rinella |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2008-12-02 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0385526857 |
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.
The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt
Title | The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln Ellsworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | American bison |
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