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Once the hooves of tens of millions of bison thundered across vast tracts of North America, from the spruce bogs of the Arctic Circle to the shores of the Gulf [...]

When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita. Some believed the explorers [...]

The 'Millennium Bug' is something that could have been prevented if people had taken time to anticipate that the year 99 could cause computers to collapse by the year 2000. Society's dependence on computers could cause its collapse similar to the Indians whose culture depended so much on buffalos.

THE MEN WHO killed off the great buffalo herds in the 1870s were not sadistic killers, slaughtering the beasts at random in the name of sport. They were methodical businessmen-adventurers [...]

Hawken. Sharps. Say the names and they reverberate like gunshots. They were the guns of a time in American history that today seems almost mythological. Of course, the guns were [...]

ACCORDING TO A STORY MY GRANDFATHER TOLD ME: Long ago, the people and the Tatanka ['buffalo'] lived e world. The people cared for the Tatanka ause they were holy. When [...]

People who rely on hunting large animals for food, clothing, and shelter often develop rituals to ensure a successful hunt are included in the ritual. sometimes, these rituals are painted [...]

Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks is an expert on the prehistoric animals that used to roam the area, especially bison and mammoths. He wrote a book about the discovery of 'Blue Babe,' a 36,000 year old bison carcass found near Fairbanks in 1979.