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R. D. Rosen
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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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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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242 |
| Date: |
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2007-06-05 |
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1595581650 |
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New Press, The |
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0.85 pounds |
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7.01 x 0.75 x 8.35 inches |
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3 saluthia (USA: ME), sparkster (USA: TX), April (USA: CA) |
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3 Leah (USA: FL), Pamela (USA: OH), Suzanne (USA: OH) |
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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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