Buffalo nickels are not only nostalgic coins but also potentially worth much more than five cents to rare coin collectors. Designed by Sculptor James Earle Fraser in 1911, they were in ...

Bison more appropriately describes the North American buffalo, which has short horns, a heavy forequarter, a large head with a heavy mane. When Europeans first saw the bison, it is logical that ...

The American buffalo’s trail back from the brink had ... in 1883 for the chance to shoot a buffalo and proudly mount its head at his home in Sagamore Hill; under the tutelage of George Bird ...

As does his most famous image, the buffalo, or Indian head, nickel. Here ... poetic views are and have always been in conflict, in American politics and in the American breast.

The significance of the landscape of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump lies in its historical, archaeological and scientific interest. The deep, undisturbed layers of animal bones (largely American Bison) ...

In the past, finding an American Buffalo nickel — often referred to as an Indian Head Nickel — was like finding a tiny bit of history, and collectors and enthusiasts still experience that ...

In southwest Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom ...