Buffalo for the Broken Heart
Dan O'Brien
Monday, 20 Feb 2006 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Dan O'Brien is the author of Buffalo for the Broken Heart, a memoir on the history of bison on the northern plains and an account of the first two years following his decision to convert his South Dakota ranch to raising bison. He has been a teacher and a wildlife biologist, and is also the author of Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey, as well as the novels The Indian Agent, Brendan Prairie, and The Contract Surgeon. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm -The Mike & Amy Finders Band will perofrm bluegrass & folk music from the heartland.This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Agrestal
- Bioethics Program
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
- English
- Environmental Sciences
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Greenlee School of Journalism
- History
- Landscape Architecture
- Miller Lecture Fund
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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