Tag: Bison

• Buffalo Dancing With Wolves–Human Ones of Every Stripe

  Cute little buffalo on a string. Yep, that’s pretty much where the early NYC based American Bison Society wanted them. Environmental historians say that the near extinction of the buffalo acted as impetus for the environmental movement in America, so that’s sort of good, right? Easterners, women especially, organized anti- animal cruelty leagues, but men…

  Adrienne Morris

  October 10, 2013

  Buffalo, History, The Unknowable Past

  Bison, Books, Buffalo, Darwin, Extinction of Buffalo, Plains Indians Buffalo, The West, United States History, westerns

• There is something perverse about more than enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there, just out of reach. The more we acquire, the more elusive enough becomes. –Unknown

  Bison Skulls

  Adrienne Morris

  October 3, 2013

  Beautiful Images, Buffalo, Uncategorized

  Bison, Buffalo, Buffalo Extinction, greed, Life, Photograph, Picture of Skulls, Quote, The West, us history

• Good News! White People Were Not Responsible For The Near Extinction Of The Buffalo

  Contrary to popular belief it wasn’t just the greedy European Americans who led the bison to near extinction. As much as ecological romantics would like to have us believe that before the white man came the Indians and all of God’s creation lived in peaceful harmony, the evidence does not back up the claim. The…

  Adrienne Morris

  October 1, 2013

  Buffalo, History, The Unknowable Past, Uncategorized

  Bison, Books, Buffalo Extinction, The Great Plains, United States History