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Lopez as a junior at Loyola School, a Jesuit preparatory school in New York City, in 1961.
Lopez as a junior at the University of Notre Dame, having dinner at the home of Odey and Nettie Cassell with his roommate Pete Lewis in February 1965. This was one of several visits Lopez made to the Cassells’ farm near Cass, West Virginia, which he later wrote about. (Photo courtesy of Pete Lewis.)
Lopez (right) with Alaska Department of Fish and Game wolf biologist Robert Stephenson, radio-collaring sedated wolves in Nelchina Basin, Alaska, in March 1976. (Photo courtesy of Craig Lofstedt.)
Lopez carrying a sedated eight-year-old female wolf in Nelchina Basin, Alaska, in March 1976. Field biologist Robert Stephenson is behind Lopez, who is conducting research for Of Wolves and Men. (Photo courtesy of Craig Lofstedt.)
Lopez at an undisturbed Anasazi ruin on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon while on a 1982 expedition with anthropologists Robert Euler and Trinkle Jones. (Photo courtesy of Robert Euler.)
Lopez on the upper Boro River in Botswana in 1987. The group of seven with whom he was traveling was attacked by this wounded male hippo. While others attempted to maneuver their boats around the highly territorial animal, Lopez (left) and his friend Ben (right) kept the hippo distracted on the opposite side of the river. (Photo courtesy of Michele Chapman and Margaret Stemp.)
Lopez (left) in a sterile clean suit, with then-Senator Al Gore (right) at a drilling site for ice cores at 6,000 feet on Newell Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, in November 1988. Gore traveled to this remote site to acquaint himself with ice-core drilling technology and the field processing of uncontaminated sections of ice core, which would later provide data for the study of global climate change.
Lopez at camp about twenty kilometers from the South Pole during an expedition to collect snow samples in Antarctica in 1988. The temperature was -29°F.
Lopez in situ with a sixty-eight-pound meteorite on the Polar Plateau at about 88° south in December 1998. Lopez and the five meteoriticists he was traveling with established an unheated field camp at Graves Nunataks, about 120 miles from the South Pole. During their field season, the group found and collected 192 meteorites.
Lopez (left) with expedition leader John Schutt in the Transantarctic Mountains in December 1998, at the start of a forty-five-day field season, picking out a route across a crevasse field to Graves Nunataks, the expedition’s destination.
Left to right: Juanita Pahdopony of Comanche Nation College; Comanche tribal chairman Wallace Coffey; Lopez; and Kim Winkelman, president of Comanche Nation College, at a reconciliation ceremony between Texas Tech University and the Comanche Nation at the Comanche tribal headquarters in Lawton, Oklahoma, in September 2007.
Lopez (left) with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (right) at the second Quest for Global Healing conference in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, in May 2006.
Lopez with his wife, Debra Gwartney, and his stepdaughters. Left to right: Amanda, Mary, Stephanie, Debra, Mollie, and Barry, at Stephanie’s home in Alford, Massachusetts, on the occasion of her graduation as an Ada Comstock Scholar from Smith College, in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Otis Lougheed.)
Lopez and Debra with their grandchildren, Ezabelle and Owen Knight, at the couple’s home on the west slope of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains in 2011. (Photo courtesy of Amanda Woodruff.)
Lopez with his grandson, Owen Knight, at the USS Arizona Memorial, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 2012. (Photo courtesy of Debra Gwartney.)
Lopez and Debra at a rooftop restaurant in Istanbul, Turkey, with Hagia Sofia in the background, in May 2012.
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“Buffalo” originally appeared in Chouteau Review as “Intentions in North America: The Buffalo.” “The Lover of Words” originally appeared in North American Review. Epigraphs: “Song of Recognition,” from Striking the Dark Air for Music, copyright © 1973 William Pitt Root, used with permission; from the preface to the 1967 edition of The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero.
The lines recalled by the narrator in “Winter Count 1973: Geese, They Flew Over in a Storm,” from a poem called “Arctic,” copyright © 1977 William Pitt Root, are scanned and are used with the permission of The Nation.
to hunch and spread
his wings and tail and fall
silent as moonlight
upon the quick hot
frenzy in that fur.
Copyright © 1976, 1980, 1981 by Barry Holstun Lopez
Illustrations copyright © 1981 by Ted Lewin
Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa
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