Those were truly massive, miles across, like the American buffalo must have once been.

If it were a herd of American buffalo, she would be cautious, but she'd still go in.

According to Rutimeyer, the ancient bison (Bos priscus) of Europe was identical with the existing American buffalo.

In days gone by the American buffalo, or bison, roamed nearly the entire length and breadth of North America.

This, too, was Comancheria, the beautiful and unremittingly hostile place they had chosen, the southernmost and richest range of the American buffalo.

Even at that remote period they had already, by long-continued selection, been developed out of wild forms akin to the American buffalo.

Until 1916, the responsibility of managing and developing it as such rested with the US Army, more specifically the African American Buffalo Soldiers.

In pre-Christian times they roamed all over Germany, and were, and still are, larger, fiercer, and much lighter colored than the American buffalo.

American Buffalo stances: see Damian Lewis and John Goodman rehearse the David Mamet classic Read more On the surface the play looks simple enough.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once-in-a-lifetime shot at riches … from left, John Goodman, Tom Sturridge and Damian Lewis in a 2015 production of American Buffalo.

The weapon now spoke up and the bullet hit the bison (for such the American buffalo really is) fairly and squarely between the eyes.