[PDF] Buffalo For The Broken Heart eBook

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0307430731

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For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden balls of wool,” O’Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half. Buffalo for the Broken Heart is at once a tender account of the buffaloes’ first seasons on the ranch and an engaging lesson in wildlife ecology. Whether he’s describing the grazing pattern of the buffalo, the thrill of watching a falcon home in on its prey, or the comical spectacle of a buffalo bull wallowing in the mud, O’Brien combines a novelist’s eye for detail with a naturalist’s understanding to create an enriching, entertaining narrative.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803250967

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For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and began the task of converting a little cattle ranch into an ethically run buffalo ranch. Wild Idea is a book about how good food choices can influence federal policies and the integrity of our food system, and about the dignity and strength of a legendary American animal. It is also a book about people: the daughter coming to womanhood in a hard landscape, the friend and ranch hand who suffers great tragedy, the venture capitalist who sees hope and opportunity in a struggling buffalo business, and the husband and wife behind the ranch who struggle daily, wondering if what they are doing will ever be enough to make a difference. At its center, Wild Idea is about a family and the people and animals that surround them—all trying to build a healthy life in a big, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous land.

Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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Story of how the buffalo reached the brink of extinction and how it was saved.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 037576139X

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For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden balls of wool,” O’Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half. Buffalo for the Broken Heart is at once a tender account of the buffaloes’ first seasons on the ranch and an engaging lesson in wildlife ecology. Whether he’s describing the grazing pattern of the buffalo, the thrill of watching a falcon home in on its prey, or the comical spectacle of a buffalo bull wallowing in the mud, O’Brien combines a novelist’s eye for detail with a naturalist’s understanding to create an enriching, entertaining narrative.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1496203046

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A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O’Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research and decades of personal experience, he details not only the natural history of the bison but also its prominent symbolism in Native American culture and its rise as an icon of the Great Plains. Great Plains Bison is a tribute to the bison’s essential place at the heart of the North American prairie and its ability to inspire naturalists and wildlife advocates in the fight to preserve American biodiversity.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803234597

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"1st Nebraska pbk. printing."--T.p. verso.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803235879

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Original publication and copyright date: 1999.

Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307831671

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Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1541646061

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A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152956026

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From a master of historical fiction Carolyn Meyer comes the moving tale, based on a true story, of a white woman who lived her life among the Comanche Indians, married the chief, and in 1861 was captured along with her daughter and returned against her will to a white settlement.