bison
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"The Bergstrom site presented a puzzle because it was used intermittently and abandoned when bison were common throughout the region and hunting was intense," Wendt explained.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Moore tried a bison, that shaggy American prairie symbol.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
This would have served as an important feeding ground in the summer for animals such as mammoth, bison, horse, elk, and reindeer, and would have in turn drawn hunter gatherers toward the area.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Mr. Moore recounts the continuing efforts to restore the “old, wild East” by focusing on three exemplar species: the elk, the bison and the enigmatic red wolf.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The media mogul Ted Turner had been raising bison on a forty-thousand-acre ranch between Fairfax and Pawhuska—a ranch that in 2016 was bought by the Osage Nation.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The United States
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