Buffaloes at Rest recalls a time when bison were plentiful. When the print was created in 1911, only about 1,350 remained. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This Winter, if all ...

“But doesn’t Ted Turner have a lot of them?” a salesperson once asked me. She’d noticed an embroidered bison on my hat. Her comment typified the very limited knowledge that most Americans have about ...

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 ...

Every so often, wild bison from one of Utah’s herds cross the invisible state border and wander into northwest Colorado — unknowingly putting their lives in danger. When the bison cross over ...

Of the some 136 million objects and specimens in the grand Smithsonian collections, most carry an implied positive energy, or a promise of better things to come, or sometimes just simple joy.

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 ...

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.

Looking out over the prairies of North America, you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a barren and lifeless land. But this habitat, the most threatened terrestrial ecosystem in the world ...

From the snow-covered landscapes of Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and all points between, The Americas takes viewers on ...