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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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