Unlike their ranched cousins, which are mainly the result of 20th-century attempts to cross bison with cattle ... visitors to the Great Plains and made the bison the symbol of American abundance.

Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren’t the most accommodating of animals. When bothered, these super-sized versions of America’s sweetheart, the plains bison, can become as solid as ...

Every so often, wild bison from one of Utah's herds cross the invisible state border ... Tens of millions of bison roamed the Great Plains and the West until the arrival of European American ...