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 ...

The American buffalo, or bison, was once the beating heart of the Great Plains. These massive animals shaped the ecosystem, their grazing patterns helping to maintain rich grasslands teeming with ...

A symbol of the West and vital sustenance for Native Americans who lived on the western Plains, the bison was hunted to near ...

The North American grasslands and bison evolved with the Plains Tribal Nations ... Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary cooperation ...

For many Native American tribes, the return of bison is a powerful act of cultural ... a living reminder of what the Great Plains once were. These parks serve as vital genetic reservoirs and ...

Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the ...

But there are also, though fewer, things of a darker mien, artifacts revealing caliginous corners of American history ... s substitute for the bison of the Great Plains, that source of life ...

A symbol of the West and vital sustenance for Native Americans who lived on the western Plains, the bison was hunted to near ...

Since his debut in 2009, OKC Thunder’s mascot has brought laughter and excitement to fans with a larger-than-life personality ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their ... On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison grazed on different grasses, in different seasons ...

This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest ... describes a larger category of wild oxen. Bison more appropriately describes the North American buffalo, which has short horns, a heavy ...

While the rapid decline of bison herds had its roots a century ... “But we have to recognize that the Great Plains will never be the American Serengeti that it was.” This story is part of ...