American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

From the host of the Travel Channel's “The Wild Within.”

A hunt for the American buffalo-an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination.
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In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness.*Despite the odds-there's only a 2 percent chance of drawing the permit, and fewer than 20 percent of those hunters are successful-Rinella managed to kill a buffalo on a snow-covered mountainsi...