The American buffalo occupies the very heart of this epic ... which generated potentially infinite demand for a narrow range of products. In addition, the profit incentive, which wasn’t usually ...

The lyrics to “Home on the Range” (“oh ... So, they knew about African buffalo. And, the American animal seemed to them that it was a sort of a curly-haired humpbacked version.

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 ...