Buffalo

Overview

An inspiring, sweeping view of the iconic animal of the Great Plains, with hundreds of spectacular color photos of bison juxtaposed with historical and contemporary paintings

As an art book Buffalo is the finest collection of photography of American bison ever published in a lush, hardcover format. It draws from the immortal words of Edward Douglas Branch's 1929 masterful The Hunting of the Buffalo to tell the epic tale of Native Americans hunting the thundering herds that once numbered 30 million animals for food, for shelter and clothing, for sacred ritual and art, and for myth-making and storytelling. Buffalo features endpapers of classic period paintings by Charles M. Russell and Albert Bierstadt of that golden era. It will appeal to romantics of the American West, students of Native culture, naturalists and wildlife lovers, history buffs, and those working diligently to restore the species to its rightful place as King of the Plains.

Author Biography

Tim Irwin first picked up a Nikon at age 15 specifically to photograph wildlife. Thousands of images and 50 years later, his passion for photographing all things wild has only grown stronger and his images more intimate. Twenty years ago Irwin relocated to southwestern Montana and immediately developed a reverence and fascination with buffalo. At the same time he became a ravenous reader of Western history. This spectacular book is the culmination of both passions.