She’d noticed an embroidered bison on my hat. Her comment typified the very limited knowledge that most Americans have about the past and present status of these iconic animals that once roamed the ...

Bison have long been a symbol of the American West, and at one time, there were around 30 to 60 million of these majestic ...

By the time Hornaday organized the American Bison Society in 1905, one of the nation's first environmental organizations, only a few hundred of the animals remained. A century after the society ...

Jaguars once roamed the American Southwest, but their presence faded over the years. Now, new sightings in Arizona suggest ...

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 ...

Hornaday hoped to find a handful of bison ... American history. The laws of supply and demand of a world market governed early capitalism, which generated potentially infinite demand for a narrow ...