Stitch Buffalo founder Dawne Hoeg says these hats represent more than just the Water Buffalo Club, for these women, they represent a new beginning, and a path into the heart of Western New York.

By Dan Flores and Sara Dant. For American wildlife, 1886 was a fateful year. In Montana Territory that year the taxidermist William Temple Hornaday was skinning an unlucky coyote in his campsite ...

BLOOD MEMORY: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo.By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Knopf. 329 pages. $40. The buffalo, the largest land mammal in North America ...

Heinert, 50, a South Dakota state senator and director of the InterTribal Buffalo Council, views his job in practical terms: Get bison to tribes that want them, whether two animals or 200.