One hundred wood bison will be reintroduced to the Alaskan wilderness later this month, somewhere they have not lived in the wild for over a century. Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...