And, of course, is it “Bison” or “Buffalo”? We asked authors, historians and professors to weigh in on some of the bigger questions from The American Buffalo.

On top of this, they can reach a length of 12.5 feet. Buffalo: They stand as high as bison but they’re shorter in length.

Bison have fascinated me since I saw my first one at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. This may seem weird, as I was born and raised in New Hampshire, and, historically, since ...

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 ...

President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of “buffalo” has persisted ...

The Great Plains is not the home where the buffalo roam. The majestic creatures honored in American culture are, in fact, bison, and not only are they not true buffalo, but they are hardly even ...

They called the Black troops "buffalo" soldiers because of their thick, curly hair, which resembled the coat of the American bison, colloquially called buffalo by Americans. Since the bison were ...

These two, the Indian and the buffalo (more correctly known as a bison), embody ... views are and have always been in conflict, in American politics and in the American breast.

Settlers killed the bison to sell their skins, and the U.S. military used the mass slaughter of the buffalo as a way to weaken and undermine the Native American tribes that relied on the animal ...