A bison on Antelope Island in Utah. There were once 60 million bison in North America. Today, just over 20,000 live in conservation herds in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Homestead Act, railroads, farming, barbed wire and cattle were all tragedies on the Great Plains. That is the thesis of Dan O’Brien’s new history, "Great Plains Bison." The Great Plains are the ...

Among bison, matriarchs lead. The same has been true for generations of many Indigenous Nations, including the Lakota, whose ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Multiple spots in northeast Indiana are shining a light on the animal and its history and importance to Indiana.

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, a librarian at Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. This week’s essay, by Becker and Paul Carlson, ...

Bison grazing on native prairie for three decades transformed the landscape, allowing wildflowers to thrive that can feed legions of bees and butterflies. MANHATTAN — The prairie of the Great Plains ...

Can't make it to Yellowstone? These five alternatives in South Dakota, Utah, Canada, are other amazing locations where you can see wild bison roaming free.

One poked its head outside the gate, then a few more took some tentative steps beyond their paddock before the 72-member herd galloped across a windswept prairie that hasn't felt the hooves of plains ...

SELMA, Ohio – Many driving from the east find their eyes drawn to the architecture of Soaring Plains, the modern, award-winning, 3,500-square-foot home at the crest of a hill across Ohio 42 from the ...

Wildflowers like goldenrod thrive in areas grazed by bison, which attracts droves of monarch butterflies to the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Bison grazing on native prairie for three decades ...