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 ...

Bulls from both species of bison are about six feet high, while buffalo of both types are closer to four or five feet. Though ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains. Even in the early 1870s, there were herds so vast that it took several days to pass them. Then two ...

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 ...

Tens of millions of American bison, often called buffalo, were once abundant across the plains and as far east as New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the National Park Service.

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom ...