Description
Description
An up-close look at the remarkable, distinctive bison and its cultural significance in the American West.
2022 High Plains Book Award, WINNER: Art & Photography
Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award and the PubWest 2021 Book Design Award: Silver Winner, Photography Books.
2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, Finalist: Photography
The first book of its kind, Bison: Portrait of an Icon tells the story of the bison--its history, majesty, cultural significance, and comeback story--through the stunning, dramatic photography of Audrey Hall. Even more, woven throughout these visually captivating photographs is an extended essay by author Chase Reynolds Ewald. Brought back from the brink of extinction, the bison today--with its rugged, primitive build, its remarkable speed and hardiness, its primeval wooly hide, and its sheer strength--is an icon as distinctly American as the bald eagle.
About the Author
About the Author
Chase Reynolds Ewald has been writing about design, travel, and lifestyle for 25 years. A graduate of Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism and U.C. Berkeley, she is currently Senior Editor of Western Art & Architecture Magazine. Residence, Tiburon, CA.
Audrey Hall's images about culture, style, and travel are featured from social media to television. This is her twelfth book. She lives in Livingston, MT.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
A magnificent tribute to this majestic creature."--Melanie Dragger "The Literary West Review" (3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) "Hall's photos are as pleasing to the eye as the words of writer Chase Reynolds Ewald, filmmaker John Heminway and poet Henry Real Bird are to the ear as they tell the story of the bison's rise, fall and rebirth on the North American continent."--Jennifer Theurer "High Plains Journal" (4/5/2021 12:00:00 AM) "... two highly regarded Western storytellers have summoned their magical chemistry to produce a gorgeous new book ...
The powerfully moving book offers a deep meditation on the cultural and spiritual resonance, near extinction and hopeful resurgence of the American bison."--Laura Beausire "Mountain Living" (3/3/2021 12:00:00 AM) "What Chase and Audrey have done in word and photo is to show us so splendidly the who and the how that restoration [of the Bison] has been and is being accomplished."--Anne W. Semmes "Greenwich Sentinel" (4/2/2021 12:00:00 AM) "Montana photographer Audrey Hall captures the beauty and spirit of America's national mammal."--Leslie Gaines "Outside Bozeman" (7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM) "The first book of its kind, Bison celebrates this Western icon as distinctly American as the bald eagle, brought back from the brink of extinction."-- "Mountain Living" (11/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) "As its title suggests, this book centers on images, and what wonderful images they are. The photos--of buffalo young and old, in herds and solitary, close up and from afar, under big skies, in the snow, behind fences, in front of mountains--speak loudly for themselves. There are no captions. But, yes, there are interesting items to read among the visual treats ...."-- "The HistoryNet" (12/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)
Publishing Information
Publishing Information

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