“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

Like many early visitors to the Great Plains, artist George Catlin was amazed when he witnessed Native Americans hunting bison on horseback, using bows and arrows as weapons.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A cultural and spiritual event at Missoula County Public Schools on Wednesday helped Native American students connect with their heritage in a hands-on way. This is the second year ...

GOSHEN -- The birth of a white bison, among the rarest of animals, is bringing Native Americans who consider it a sacred event to celebrate at one of the least likely of places, a farm in New England.

In 1886, the last wild buffalo on the Great Plains was killed among the steep bluffs and badlands of central Montana, the final remnant of the tens of millions of bison that once roamed the nation’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials will work to ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series on threatened and endangered species. Though just about everyone refers to them as “buffalo,” they are only remotely related to the water ...

Two statues from a foundry in Northern Colorado have completed a tour across the country that lasted over a week and are now installed in front of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Most Americans who have visited Yellowstone or watched a nature documentary have probably used the word “buffalo” to describe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium’s International Conservation Center in Somerset County has welcomed one of North ...