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An unlikely collection of Americans rescues the national mammal from extinction.
America’s national mammal, once numbering millions, is driven to near extinction.
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Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey and Dayton Duncan on creating their latest documentary.
Examining the center of one of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales.
Grinnell fought the destruction of birds and other wildlife, including the buffalo.
More than 250 Lakotas – mostly women and children – were killed by U.S. soldiers.
By 1889, Buffalo Bill Cody was the most famous American in the world.
The U.S. government made treaties with Indigenous people when it was convenient.
The scale of wild animal loss during the 1800s is the largest in known human history.
After the Civil War, Americans set out with renewed energy to unite the East and West.
Did you know a buffalo can clear a six-foot fence?
The 1913 Buffalo Nickel raises important questions how we think of the American West.
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