Despite that, there was some sort of connection, an almost spiritual link, between the bison and me. To the Native people who call the Plains home – the Lakota, Comanche, Cheyenne ...

descendants of the original herds that once astonished visitors to the Great Plains and made the bison the symbol of American abundance. Until, that is, rampant hunting made it a symbol of ...

Anything less than 1000 bison, and preferably many more, on less than 100 square miles of diverse habitat will accomplish little to ... present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American ...

The thunder of hooves once shook the vast North American plains as millions of bison roamed free ... In the early 20th century, ranchers, zoos, and Native tribes pooled the last surviving animals ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...