Are bison and buffalo the same? Well ... and much more were made from the animal’s remains, and their meat provided food. Europeans saw the potential wealth in buffalo hides and proceeded ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped ...

Today, there are 14 states with a city or town named Buffalo, only five of them in the West. By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which comes from the Latin word for “wild ...