A thousand years after the West Coast culture took shape, around 6,000 BC, a plains culture formed around the buffalo. The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and ...
He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s essay is about the Sharps Rifle and its use by buffalo hunters on the South Plains was written by Austin Allison, Assistant Librarian and ...
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 ...
Explores some of the most famous landscapes, charting the origin of the animal, its importance to the Native Americans and the Great Plains landscape, its impending extinction and the struggles to ...
When NFL fans think of the Buffalo club, the immediate thought is of the logo and mascot, which are bison. However, the team is not actually named after the powerful beast that roams the plains.