American Buffalo

by Steven Rinella
Category: "Nature/Science"
Pages:258
Year of Publication:2008
Date Added:01/14/2025
Date Read:05/25/2025
Notes:Subtitle: In Search of a Lost Icon

An account of the author's trip to Alaska to hunt a bison and a lot of nonsense about evolution.
My Rating: 3

Reviews for American Buffalo

Review - American Buffalo

I expected a book about the natural history of bison, the animals role in American history, and the legends and lore that have built up around it. What I got was a minute-by-minute account of the author's hunting trip to shoot a bison in Alaska where a herd has been introduced, and a lot of nonsense about evolution, including how people got to North America (?). Along the way, the author took every opportunity he could find to scorn the Bible and those who believe it.

For example: Until that month [when someone found "ancient' bison bones mixed with human weapons], archaeology had been compromised by the Bible, much the way evolutionary biology is plagues by that some text today.

In other words, if our current theory doesn't mesh with the Bible, then the Bible is wrong. I only made it a little more than 100 pages in because it wasn't interesting and it wasn't about buffalo.
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