As in his plays Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo, he chronicles the habits of a nasty breed of bottom feeder.
In most African countries elephants are the equivalent of the American buffalo.
In 1905, to preserve the country's remaining stocks, a group of well-to-do East Coasters, including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington, set up the American Bison Society (buffalo and bison being one and the same).
In 1846, Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman and showman, was born as William Frederick Cody.
"I liked a lot of things we did, " said Rolston, who was coaching Buffalo's American Hockey League affiliate in Rochester when Ruff was dismissed.
At the time of the revolutionary war around 40m buffalo roamed the North American continent.
Acres of beige or putty-colored cubicles, like the herds of buffalo that ranged across the American west, are long-gone, replaced by a mobile, distributed workforce who is no longer tethered to a central location.
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Mr Rinella neatly blends the tale of his adventure with an anecdotal history of the buffalo and its place in the American psyche.
Films are steeped in lore of the little guy raging against injustice, sometimes based on historical figures such as Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Frank and Jesse James, said Elayne Rapping, a retired professor of American and media studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
Families gawk at a game enclosure featuring stuffed buffalo, grizzlies, bighorn sheep and other rarely seen emblems of the American frontier.
Businessman Ray Coyle, owner of Largo foods, the company behind Tayto in the Republic has turned 55 acres of farmland into an American-themed park, which will include an Indian village, adventure playgrounds and exotic animals from buffalo to cougars and mountain lions.
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