In 1972, state lawmakers chose the bison for this role because it tied together Native traditions, frontier history, and the ...

Quick Take Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The ...

Several years ago, I had the chance to drive around the Dakotas and was struck by the haunting beauty and the sheer immensity ...

Why Kansas chose the plains bison in 1955, honoring its speed, strength, and role in shaping prairie life, Native history, and frontier identity.

An ancient bison was frozen inside Siberian permafrost for up to 9,000 years until the melting ice coughed out its mummified body in summer 2022. Now scientists in Russia hope to clone the ancient ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The American Bison is an icon of North America, but after dangerously dwindling to only 1,000 or so ...

The modern Western “Lonesome Dove” drew inspiration from rancher Charles Goodnight’s legendary cattle drives. The ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Today, Department of Labor lands currently support 17 bison herds in 12 ...

Once they were many, some 75 million in all, a vast, roaming expanse of powerful muscles, sharp horns and thick hides that stirred the dust from the cold reaches of Canada to northern Mexico; from ...