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A Buffalo in the House: The True Story About a Man, an Animal, and the American West
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Item Description...
Product Description
Marley and Me meets All Creatures Great and Small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household.
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer's wildest dreams
Charlie has no idea he's a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo. Written in the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains and the work of Garrison Keillor and Bill Bryson, A Buffalo in the House tells an important, uplifting story about one animal's ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 256
Dimensions: Length: 8.2" Width: 5.6" Height: 1"
Weight: 0.85 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Jun 1, 2007
ISBN 1595581650
EAN 9781595581655
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Availability 2 units.
Availability accurate as of May 30, 2012 06:02.
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 | Amazing! Oct 12, 2008 |
| This is a very touching and moving book about a man and his bond with a buffalo. It was quite enjoyable to read and had some funny parts as well. I highly recommend it! | | | | What an Amazing Story About a Man and his Buffalo Jul 16, 2008 |
| If you love reading about animals along with historical facts, this book will not disappoint you. What an amazing story. I finished reading "A Buffalo in the House" just three days ago and I am still emotional and wondering why I didn't purchase this book a lot sooner. Charlie, the Buffalo, bonded with his caretaker/owner, Roger, in such a way that you will want that kind of bond with your beloved pet. The author easily combined the story of Charlie with historical facts about Buffalo. His artist wife, Veryl, sculpted Charlie from the time he was less than a month old amid bottle-feeding and the playful antics of a baby Buffalo. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll really enjoy this wonderful story. | | |  | Touching animal story but too political May 13, 2008 |
| Great story about the bond between a man and a buffalo, but the author scatters his liberal politics throughout which detracts from the story and is offensive to those who may have a different view. | | | | A Buffalo In The House Feb 8, 2008 |
This is one I will keep on my shelf forever! This book is wonderful from the first sentence to the last. Roger and Charlie's relationship is magnificent and they bring you right into the center of it. My husband finished this book in an airport and unashamedly cried like a baby. It is a love story, a history lesson, and a rally cry to protect our precious american heritage in the magnificence of our buffalo.
The cover says it all - a beautifully written love between a man and his adoring buffalo. Read it! | | |  | hard to trust the "facts" this author uses Feb 1, 2008 |
| I was in the mood for a heartwarming story about man's relationship to wildlife, but I expected the narrative to include reliable factual information. When, on page 21, the author referred to the "several giant North American mammals" that became extinct and then listed as examples "fifty-foot-long alligators, ten-foot-high carnivorous birds, and 1,500-pound guinea pigs," I threw the book down in disgust and haven't picked it up again. If this guy doesn't know the difference between mammal, reptile, and avian, why should I believe anything he says about the natural history of the buffalo, or anything else for that matter? | | | Write your own review about A Buffalo in the House: The True Story About a Man, an Animal, and the American West
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