Imagine a sea of shaggy, brown giants stretching to every horizon, their thundering hooves shaking the earth beneath your ...

Over the years, the American buffalo, or bison, has been a symbol of the American frontier. As their numbers shrank, they began appearing on everything from the nickel to stamps to the $10 bill.

We have adopted the buffalo as our de facto national symbol not through legislation or compromise (like each state’s “State Bird”), but through unspoken consensus. Our legislators elected ...