Imagine a sea of shaggy, brown giants stretching to every horizon, their thundering hooves shaking the earth beneath your ...

So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to them that it was a sort of a curly-haired humpbacked version. So they tended to use the term “buffalo” fairly frequently ...

The American buffalo occupies the very heart of this epic ... drove almost unquenchable demands for furs, feathers, and animal products. In the long run, this was damaging for both nature and ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour "The American Buffalo" (PBS) braids the biography of the animal with the Native American experience, tracing two parallel and overlapping historical tracks of ...

Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is for elk and deer, the killing of wild bison would be legal only with a ...

Since Hornaday's era, the number of buffalo on American soil has skyrocketed, thanks to his efforts and others. In 1902, twenty-one captive bison and 23 wild animals in Yellowstone National Park ...

Here, stillness seems to be an essential component of both the animal and the ... been in conflict, in American politics and in the American breast. The Indian and the buffalo make one whole ...

Explores some of the most famous landscapes, charting the origin of the animal, its importance to ... By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeters on extinction; a diverse and unlikely collection ...