At one time, there had been as many as 50 million buffalo on the North American plains ... When Canadian settlers started farming, the first cash crop for some was buffalo bones, sold by the ...

Before the 1800s CE, the American bison was thriving. Estimates of buffalo numbers on the continent vary from around 30 to 60 ...

But they made an unlikely comeback and continue to captivate people. At Yellowstone National Park – home to the largest bison herd in the U.S., with almost 6,000 head of wild bison – they are a major ...