by Steven Rinella "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. (Check Catalog)
Friday, January 30, 2009
American buffalo : in search of a lost icon
by Steven Rinella "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. (Check Catalog)
