American buffalo
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By nightfall, the last of the American buffalo shipped from Badlands were being unloaded at the Rosebud reservation, where Heinert also lives.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
Yet at the time, most people assumed that "species were static and enduring," Nijhuis writes, and those who did catch wind of the fall of the American buffalo mostly responded with a shrug.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2021
As the disk of the sun slowly emerges, I can make out small black silhouettes grazing in the distance: herds of American buffalo and Przewalski’s horses.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2015
A series of semiabstract paintings on paper by Gary Panter — the underground comic artist and designer for the TV show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — pertain to the extinction of the American buffalo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2014
We now come to the American buffalo, or Bison, as it should be called.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
