Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is for elk and deer, the killing of wild bison would be legal only with a ...

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.

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 ...