In 1905, to preserve the country's remaining stocks, a group of well-to-do East Coasters, including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington, set up the American Bison Society (buffalo and bison being one and the same).
It was the first taste of bison tartare for much of the group, and judging by the thin swirls of egg that were the only evidence left on the plates, it was an enjoyable introduction to raw bison meat.
Matt Miller (2), Danny Stewart, Jeremy Cornish and Craig Peacock were on target for the Bison.
In the prehistoric era, the guy with the most bluster probably brought home the most bison.
Besides the bison, we saw elk and moose, coyote, trumpeter swans and even a wolf.
There are bison and elk heads on the walls and other animal skins on the ceiling.
Another is to have more bison, whose meat can bring in a pretty penny.
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This suggests that all present-day bison are descended from a very small group of animals.
But Dr Kennett notes that present-day bison are not like the ones the Clovis people hunted.
Bison assistant coach Jeremy Cornish seconded Miller's complaint that Cardiff had been the luckier of the teams.
Now Zubrowka - bison grass vodka - and Zywiec beer are easy to find in British cities.
Two years later they sent 15 animals by rail to the new Wichita Bison Refuge in Oklahoma.
Elk and bison populations increased dramatically because there was no natural predator to keep their numbers in check.
There's domestic game as well, including bison, whitetail deer and elusive Osceola turkey.
Three symbols of Native America--the bison, the eagle and the Native American people themselves--have been endangered in recent decades.
Cornish insisted the Bison were continuing to improve despite back-to-back home defeats, and forecast new arrivals on the horizon.
"The obvious thing is it can't be the sound of vultures ripping apart a bison or anything, " he says.
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Of course, that might just mean that the Clovis people had not quite exterminated bison before they, themselves, disappeared.
In 2000, completed pieces for the work called "Lakota Bison Jump, " were lying in a field next to the Wyoming foundry.
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There are cowboys and debutantes, Northern spotted owls and bison, cityscapes and pueblos, mesas and dams, gathering storms and controlled burns.
Game lovers should try the bison tenderloin lacquered with a wild black cherry and bourbon glaze and served with gorgonzola mashed potatoes.
At least two such co-operatives, Dakota Growers Pasta Co. and the North American Bison Co-op, are doing well elsewhere in North Dakota.
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We took a tour of the Hall of North American Mammals, stopping to admire Wilson's work at the American Bison and Pronghorn Antelope diorama.
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Lehigh was a slight preseason favorite over the Bison but ended the regular season with the third seed after losing McCollum for all league games.
Growing up, I was led to believe that Native Americans, or Indians, like the buffalo or bison and the bald eagle, were objects from America's past.
Squeezing past the stiff bulk of Eric, the stuffed bison, in the hall, she would creep down the bullet-pocked stairs and step out into Albert Street.
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Dogs have been sheared and coloured so that they resemble a bison, a court jester and a scorpion at a series of US "extreme dog grooming contests".
What amazes him, Myers says, is that a species that may have once outnumbered the American bison population at its height could fall so far so fast.
Nobody made buffalo-hide shoes, and there was a ready supply of raw material: Ranchers slaughtered about 14, 000 bison each year to meet the growing demand for low-cholesterol meat.
There are plenty of collections of bones from animals such as reindeer, horses, bison and mammoths that are associated with Neanderthals, but few remains of rabbits or tortoises.
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