Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is ...

Anglo-American settlers of England, Spain, France, Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands began to change native ... the buffalo from differing points of view. Plains Indians had learned to hunt ...

but it was the sixteenth century arrival of Europeans and their horses and firearms that accelerated the market hunt and thrust the American buffalo into the sights of a global economy.