Where the Buffaloes Begin

Where the Buffaloes Begin"Over the blazing campfires, where the wind moaned eerily through the thickets of juniper and fir, they spoke of it in the Indian tonguethe strange lake to the southward whose waters never rest. And Nawa, the medicine man, who had lived such countless moons that not even the oldest member of his people could remember a time when Nawa was not old, declared that, if only you arrived at the right time, on the right night, you would see the buffaloes rise

with a hysterical mixture of joy and terror

A student of anatomist Georges Cuvier

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this coming-of-age story unfolds during the Depression and World War II

Rereading the book after a few years is an enlightening and entertaining experience

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Randolph discusses weather signs

this journey may come later than we hoped

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Chapter three covers measuring tools from rules and tapes to calipers

begins by drawing upon the literature and history of antiquity as well as medieval civilizations

Mendelssohn critique