Hornaday hoped to find a handful of bison for an exhibit in America’s National Museum, since stuffed ones might well be the only buffalo future Americans would ever see. While only sixty years ...

But just how accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show? The buffalo were real, to begin with. So was Bill Cody. He had grown up in Kansas during the period of intensive Western migration ...

Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species. All of these are distantly related under the same family, Bovidae.

For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal.

And on this frontier, old mountain men who drifted in and kept brass rails and cuspidors of crude saloons in high polish, told us there were literally millions of buffalo. They didn't belong to ...

At the time, few people worried that the American buffalo (whose scientific name is Bison bison) could possibly disappear. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, they had ranged in uncountable numbers ...

Was William Hornaday a hero or villain in the story of American Buffalo? What happened in 19th century society to allow the mass extinction or near mass extinction of so many animals? How did ...

America’s national mammal, once numbering millions, is driven to near extinction. The American Buffalo premieres on PBS stations starting Monday, Oct. 16 at 8 pm ET. Television broadcast air ...

His life seemed to be following a trajectory familiar to most of the kids who attended his large high school in suburban Western New York, just outside of Buffalo. But after one high school soccer ...

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It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances” that engages our imagination of the unique relationship between Indigenous peoples and bison. Catlin wrote that he ...