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 ...

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 ...

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 ...