In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo in the Alaskan wilderness. In a book that combines adventure with a quirky blend of facts and observations about history and the natural world, Rinella takes us across the continent-from the Bering Land Bridge, where scientists search for buffalo bones amid artifacts of the New World's earliest human inhabitants, to buffalo jumps where Native Americans once ran animals over cliffs by the thousands. A captivating narrative of environmental and historical significance, Rinella's tale is a fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination for centuries.