american bison

Describes the characteristics, behaviors, and life cycles of American bison, explains some of the reasons why the animals were slaughtered in the late nineteenth century, and discusses the efforts of conservationists to restore American bison populations on protected reserves and ranches.

Discusses the life style of the bison before it faced extinction, the period that almost killed it off, and the conservation efforts to restore the herds of North America's largest land animal.

A story based on a Cree legend, in which a Cree village suffering the mysterious disappearance of the buffalo herds must decide whether to risk war or starvation after one of its children has a vision of the buffalo in the Badlands, the home of an enemy tribe.

Discusses the American bison, also known as the buffalo, which despite a onetime abundance, now only exists in a few protected herds.

Relates information about the history, life, and habits of buffalo, and discusses their significance to the Native American people.

Presents paintings and tribal song-poems that express the buffalo's essential and sacred role on the plains.

When young Karl Isaac heads west with his family in a prairie schooner, he experiences many things but longs to see buffalo.

Explains the reasons why the American bison came close to extinction, discusses the efforts of William Temple Hornaday to inform people of the crisis in bison populations and to start a bison herd at the Bronx Zoo, and looks at how the governments of the U.S. and Canada helped by creating wildlife preserves for the animals.

Details the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the American bison.

Recounts scientist, journalist, and conservationist George Bird Grinnell's efforts to protect a herd of wild American buffalo in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.