bison

Six adolescent boys living in a camp in Arizona run away into the desert and learn much about themselves and the world.

Discusses the American bison, also known as the buffalo, which despite a onetime abundance, now only exists in a few protected herds.

Relates information about the history, life, and habits of buffalo, and discusses their significance to the Native American people.

Buster and his father visit South Dakota and send postcards home describing their visit to the Crazy Horse monument, their experience with buffalo, and more.

Discusses the life cycle of the bison, its role in the settlement of the American West, and its near extinction.

Presents paintings and tribal song-poems that express the buffalo's essential and sacred role on the plains.

When young Karl Isaac heads west with his family in a prairie schooner, he experiences many things but longs to see buffalo.

Text and photographs describe the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of the buffalo.

Explains the reasons why the American bison came close to extinction, discusses the efforts of William Temple Hornaday to inform people of the crisis in bison populations and to start a bison herd at the Bronx Zoo, and looks at how the governments of the U.S. and Canada helped by creating wildlife preserves for the animals.

Discusses the life cycle of the bison, its role in the settlement of the American West, and its near extinction.