"One of the most memorable characters in recent nature writing."

--STARRED REVIEW in

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"This is a book so riveting in its details that only after you’ve put it down do you begin to grasp the extent of Richard Rosen’s accomplishment. From the story of one stray baby bison named Charlie Buffalo and the family that took him in, Rosen has drawn a sweeping history of the American frontier -- of the people who tried to destroy it and the ones determined to save it. I can’t remember when I’ve been instructed so gracefully, or entertained to such deep purpose."
--JANE KRAMER, staff writer for The New Yorker

"I was completely hooked. A superb book. Rosen writes beautifully. Very funny, and the story is completely absorbing. I wish this book could be read by everyone!"
---JEFFREY MASSON, bestselling author of When Elephants Weep,
Dogs Never Lie About Love, and The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats

"Into each life should gallop a love as large, unexpected, and miraculous as the one R. D. Rosen evokes in this incredible book"
---VICKI CROKE, author of The Lady and the Panda

"Smart, funny, touching, and altogether amazing but true."-

---BILL GEIST, 

CBS News Correspondent 

 A Buffalo in the House:
The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West

by R. D. Rosen

Disobedient dogs? Mischievous cats? Please. Try having a buffalo in the house.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Veryl Goodnight, a descendent of one of the few men who saved the American buffalo species from extinction in the 19th century, teams up with her husband Roger Brooks to save just one.

As they eventually find out, raising a baby buffalo is a great way to learn humility, the importance of boundaries, and some sobering lessons about American history.