The American buffalo is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the centre of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. In the space of only a decade, they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans.
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