A Buffalo in the House
A Buffalo in the House: The True Story About a Man, an Animal, and the American West
R. D. Rosen,
Publisher: New Press
ISBN: 1595581650
DDC: 978.95603092
Edition: Hardcover; 2007-06-01
Summary:
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 dreamsCharlie 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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