Buffalo's Best is the ideal resource for not only tourists, but for Buffalo residents as well. The book is a comprehensive, detailed, and painstakingly researched list of things to do and see in Buffalo, New York. Even after living in the city for a number of years, Buffalo's Best still manages to provide me with many new things to do. From nightlife to the arts, Buffalo's Best can accomodate for any preference in entertainment.

Everytime I'm in Bufffalo (and that's often) I bring my copy of Buffalo's Best. Thanks to the book I spent a delightful afternoon at the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum and that's just one of the many unusual places in the Day Trips chapter. As for the dining suggestions, I have not been disappointed. This is a must reference for enjoying all that Buffalo has to offer.

Buffalo's Best is the only guide you'll need to explore or rediscover the finest restaurants, hottest nightspots, and coolest places to spend your time in Buffalo. It is my constant companion when visiting the city, and I've given copies to several appreciative friends who live in and near the area. Great book!

A few of my favorite painters are contemporaries of Still, so I saw it as my duty to see the Hirschhorn exhibition. Well, I picked a dead day and had the show to myself and simply put I am now a fan. The book is great and David Anfam's addition to the book is especially enlightening about the work of Still.

I am a painter who has largely avoided Clifford Still but this book has turned me into a great admirer. Particulary influential was the contribution by David Anfam, the art historian who was responsible for the magnificent, award-winning Mark Rothko catalogue raisonne. Anfam's essay is insightful, far-reaching, beautifully written with poetic underpinnings, a pleasure to read. All you'll ever need to know about Clifford Still, his work, and his place in art history is covered in this essay. The color plates are also wonderful and, even as reproductions, offer a great chance to appreciate the paintings.

Clyfford Still is one of the giant figures of the art world and this book puts his paintings in a proper perspective. The book contains many color reproductions of his large non-objective canvases. Still himself wrote the book and gives us a very good insight into his life and thinking process. He discusses what went into his paintings and how his unique canvas numbering system worked absent dates and titles to identify his work. It is also a journey through his body of work. His paintings were skillfully balanced with positive and negative spaces and his unparalleled use of color is well documented. This book is a must for any art lover in general and for students of American art in particular. I liked this book not only for the well reproduced paintings in color but also because it let's us into the painter's mind to get a glimps of his true genius.

Charlotte E. Churchill lived a life full of stories. She also lived a life full of tragedy. In reading her work you can get a true sense of her bittersweetness. She pieces together memories, witty metaphors, humor, and heartache, and creates a patchwork of art so haunting and so honest that you cannot help but draw in a piece of her. I must admit I am not one to read a lot of poetry. I prefer novels to poems, but in reading Charlotte Churchill's work I found myself captivated. Like an old friend who has you over on a Thursday afternoon to tell you all the lastest news over a cup of coffee, she was a woman who had definitely found her voice. For anyone who wants a taste of a truly gifted modern American writer who can hold her own with the likes of Sylvia Plath and Joyce Carol Oates, then pick up this collection of Charlotte Churchill's poems. She will surely be missed, but her work is a true legacy.

Charlotte Churchill's poetry is rooted deep in the personal ... beautiful, vibrant words that tell a story about the author and her life experiences. Her expressions are at once chilling and inspiring, brutal and sweet. Add her to the list of accomplished female poets whose voice resonates with those who struggle in being alive.

They tell you when you write these Amazon reviews not to hype any promotional signings, book tours, television appearances etc. Well, nobody has to worry. the poet Charlotte Churchill died mysteriously last year under the wheels of an 18-wheeler bound for who knows where down a lonsesome road in western New York State. She won't be giving any statements. Part Portugese part WASP, the New England thing and the marrying well thing. The only thing good it did her was give her the ability to turn out poems of extraordinary craftsmanship. This is the real deal. The french might call it art brut but the french can be such arseholes. "I signed myself into this state nut house before I killed somebody," she wrote. I wish I would'a done it years ago." She looked like a goddess and society failed her. men failed her and love failed her. This is a great book.

Alas, I have been asked by my publisher to write yet another book on Chief Joseph. I wish to do it well and respectfully, and, if possible, break a little new ground. So, I may be one of ten people on earth who has travelled the Nez Perce trail, both known and unknown, from the Wallowa all the way to Tonkawa, with requisite sidetrips to Nespelem and various relevant sites. All in all, I've put about 10,000 miles into this enterprise. And here's the hard truth: Cheryl Wilfong, whoever she is -- and God bless her researching soul -- has made this trip possible. She has broken the route down into three categories -- mainstream traveller, for the pavement folk; adventurous traveller, for the dirt road folk; and intrepid traveller for the white-knuckle, high center clearance, "I don't need guard rails" folk. I did it mostly on the adventurous/intrepid roads. And I can say, unequivocally, that she has created a work that will not soon be bettered, and which is absolutely invaluable for any Nez Perce afficianado, from the casual traveller to the "I only come out of the archives to breathe" geeks who are researching the familial ties between Wahlatits and Yellow Bull.

By the very nature of the task, she has a few errors, and they can put you in harm's way, such as having you travel 1.8 miles to a crossroads in the vast emptiness of Montana's back country when the actual distance is 11.8 miles. But these errors are so few as to be remarkable in their infrequency. Overall, she takes you mile by mile, dusty crossroad by dusty crossroad, rutted mountain pass by rutted mountain path, and conducts you on an assiduously researched journey of the trail that the Nez Perce followed from their homeland in the Wallowa and Snake/Salmon country to their exile in Oklahoma.

I could give you endless specifics, but here is the bottom line: you cannot take this trip, or any portion of it, without this book. You can forget your Josephy, misplace your Haines and your Lavender, or trade your Greene and your McWhorter for extra gas money. But you cannot -- CANNOT -- take this journey without having this book on the seat next to you.

Take it from someone who stopped at every pile of stones, every remnant of rifle pit and breastwork, every old campsite and every battle and staging area; who walked the high country trails near Lolo and the lowland campgrounds on the flats below Fort Leavenworth: You absolutely must buy this book if you choose to retrace any of this journey.

The Nez Perce Historic Trail Foundation and the National Park Service should canonize this woman.

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The story of the Nez Perce bands of Wallowa Oregon is one of the saddest of the expansion period of the American West. Driven from their homelands by a sneaky treaty they never signed, several bands of Nez Perce were moving reluctantly onto the new, smaller reservation. But a few angry young men left camp, on their own, and killed a white man they knew to be bad to Indians. The U.S. Army responded and thus began the pursuit of the Nez Perce, across Idaho, to Wyoming, and then Montana, over 1100 miles. Eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children walked and rode hoping to find a new place to settle where the Army would no longer pursue. But the Army did pursue, and finally caught up with the Nez Perce on a cold October day in Northern Montana, where after a 5 day siege, Chief Joseph finally surrendered to save those that were left, cold, sick, and tired. This book follows the trail, and recounts the history as told by several authors and particpants including General Howard, Yellow Wolf, and some Army Scouts. It is the one book you should read first. Then get out and drive the trail that the Nez Perce rode. I bet you can't drive it in one summer, but they rode that distance, moving camp every day, with the Army shooting at them when ever they didn't move far enough. Chief Joseph wondered when will the white men ever tell the truth. Why is the Indian not allowed to live under the same laws of freedom as the white man.

This is an excellent work which I plan to use as a tool for planning vacations over the next summers. The history is concise yet accurate and supplements works by Helen Addison Howard (Saga of Chief Joseph), Merrill Beale (I Will Fight No More Forever), Alvin Josephy (The Nez Perce and the Opening of the Northwest), L. V. McWhorter (Yellow Wolf & Hear Me My Chiefs!) The maps, side trips, and road condition guides are useful. Classifications of roads for vehicles and travelers described as mainstream, adventurous and intrepid are unique for this type of history book and assist in planning based on the type of vehicle one might be using. Reminds me of hiking books. A knowledge of geography is vital to understanding history. Wilfong aids amature historians visiting the areas to view and get a better understanding of the physical conditions both the troops and the Nez Perce found in this tragic chapter of American history.

Goodbye Buffalo Sky deserves to become a classic in the tradition of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Although written for young adults, it is a powerful story beautifully told that could be enjoyed by any reader. Set in North America during the white settlement of the American West, this is a rich and complex story told with eloquent simplicity. Cappy and Alice, two teenagers who live in the small frontier town of Buffalo Sky take turns in telling the story of Two Songs, a beautiful young Mandan Indian who marries a local artist, Buckhart, and the effect their friendship with her has on their lives.

This is one of those books that stays with you for years after you've read it.

Ignore "Kirkus Reviews" and note instead the "Booklist" review, and the quotes provided by the author from the English reviews. "Goodbye, Buffalo Sky" is an immediately captivating tale [young Cappy is caught peeping as an artist paints a nude of his wife], told alternately by Cappy and friend Alice. Humor, page-turning narrative drive, and insightful characterizations make this tale of the great American prairie, a bit over one hundred years ago, a first-rate Western for readers ages 10-14.

It is 1870 on the northern plains in a small pioneer settlement called Buffalo Sky; orphaned twelve year old Cappy Carrew lives in a boarding house. When his painting teacher and friend is murdered by a Sioux Indian, and his Indian wife driven out of town, Cappy sets off across the plains in pursuit of the killer, accompanied by Alice, a girl eager for adventure. Alice and the Indian woman, Two Songs, are captured by the Sioux; Cappy sets off in pursuit. He and Alice return to Buffalo Sky only to find the town in ruins and the survivors having fled. Although it ultimitley leaves you hanging, this book is an exciting, action packed western, and sure to be a page turner!

The subtitle, "Story of the 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo Soldiers Bicycle Corps" is a good general description of the book's contents. I had never heard of Ft. Missoula, much less known that they had a bicycle corps, before stumbling across this book in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial's bookstore. It's not a long book, but it covers its topic well. Of course I was interested in the horrendous ride from Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, but the account of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry saving the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill was enlightening. Also (all too) informative was the account of the "discharge without honor" by order of President Theodore Roosevelt of 167 soldiers, many of them formerly of the bicycle corps. The book also includes numerous photos, a number of which are wonderful shots (and very well-printed) of the soldiers in Yellowstone National Park. I highly recommend this book as an entertaining account of a dedicated group of American soldiers who happened to have been of African descent. (Incidently, having read this book I was able to feel incredibly smug with recognition when the Bicycle Corps turned up as an integral part of Peter Heck's "Tom's Lawyer", the most recent installment of his Mark Twain mystery series.)

What a great book! It really has something for everybody; military bike history, Black history, the American frontier at the turn of the century and more. Great pictures and illustrations also. Military cycling books are rare and this one fills a much needed niche. You will not be disappointed.

Whoever heard about this unusual bicycle corps that pedalled around the Rocky Mountains 100 years ago? The fact that African-American army soldiers participated in this fascinating exercise adds to the enjoyment of this story. The author clearly did his research and presents the material in an understandable and fun manner. Check it out!

Mr. Durham's book gives an excellent look at some of the beliefs of the Lakota, without being overly romantic. His love for both the Buffalo and Sundance are evident as he shows how walking a sacred path is a full time job, not for the weekend warriors. I have already recomended this books several times, and read my copy twice so far.

I have read this book and found it wonderful. It is very spiritual and gives insight into the Native American spirit and ways. We could all take a lesson from this book. I also had the privilage of seeing the Sacred Buffalo Skeleton in person. Very inspiring!!.

This book is an amazing journey about what went into the creation of a sacred object. It takes you through the mechanics of how it was done, as well as what the people involved put into it spiritually and emotionally. Their dedication to this project was very inspiring. Having been lucky enough to actually see this beautiful piece of art, I felt the book further enhanced that experience.

No, it's not a book - it's the screenplay and text, credited to Doc and Ralph. It was published 1980 by a smaller New York publisher (can't remember) it's not catalogued in the Library of Congress, but the National Library of Canada does have it. Look me up under Yahoo - it's The Great Thompson Hunt.

This is Not a book itis a movie based on Hunters life and to an extent on Saga of the Brown Buffalo by his lawyer Acosta I believe. Bill Murray Plays hunter Peter Boyle plays his Lawyer. Good Flic

If there was ever a book to base a movie on about the good doctor's life, this would be it! It would be great! Bill Murray might make a good Thompson. Let's hope!

I've visited most of the places in this book, and I've yet to be dissappointed. Besides giving a large variety of places, Reade provides the best times to go, what you can expect, and how to get there. If you live in western NY and enjoy the outdoors, you will enjoy this book.

I found this book a wonderful resource for day trips in the Western New York area. There are places to explore for all types of people, from serious hikers and explorers, to artistic sculpture seeking individuals.

I too have been searching for this book almost 20 years later. It's a book that you read and never forget. I could tell you the story and haven't read the book since 1985. How can such a great book be out of print?

I second the comments of the previous reviewer. I read this book as a twelve year old, and have spent the last twenty years looking for another copy. Hard to find, but well worth the search.