Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This Winter, if all goes as planned, a caravan of livestock trucks will carry dozens of American bison out of Yellowstone National Park on a 500 ...

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

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 ...

By the early 1900s, American bison numbers had been reduced by 99.9% across North America and only 23 wild bison were known ...

The significance of the landscape of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump lies in its historical, archaeological and scientific interest. The deep, undisturbed layers of animal bones (largely American Bison) ...