On Aug. 10, 1846, by a vote of 26 to 13, the U.S. Senate passed the act organizing the Smithsonian Institution, which was signed into law by President James K. Polk. Among its provisions, the Organic ...
National Museum of Wildlife Art, "Highlights from the collection," Jackson Hole, WY: The Museum, 1999. National Museum of Wildlife Art 2820 Rungius Road, P. O. Box 6825 Jackson Hole Wyoming 83002 ...
With “The American Buffalo,” Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation’s history
At the end of the 18th century, according to modern estimates, the American buffalo population numbered around 60 million, with herds roaming freely across North America. Bison sustained Indigenous ...
Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species. All of these are distantly related under the same family, Bovidae. The multitude of ...
William Temple Hornaday must have been miserable. It was November tipping into December of 1886 when Hornaday and his crew of seven pushed into the cold, joyless, wind-chapped badlands of what is now ...
The city of Denver has donated 35 bison to several Native American tribes and one memorial council in Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The transfers marked another example of Indigenous people ...
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