American Buffalo, In search of a lost icon
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Eric…I bought the book today at B&N and picked up a second copy for a Fiberglass Flyrodders Deployment Care Package for one of our members that recently was deployed overseas.
I think you guys will really like it. I’m a huge junkie for paleo science and always have been. Rinella’s chapter on early North American man and their effect on and destruction of the big game populations was some of the best stuff in the book, leaving aside his personal story, which I found darn near epic.
One of the coolest chapters was his description of helicoptering in to a lonely plateau on what is today the Bering slope. He and a scientist climbed to the top of a sort of escarpment, where you could see game movement (caribou nowadays) for miles. The scientist described finding a spearpoint on the very spot they chose to survey the terrain; man has been hunting the same way for a very long time.
Zach
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