The award-winning Nature series is the longest-running weekly natural history series on television. The buffalo, known as bison, came to North America long ago from Asia across the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska. Bison can weigh up to a ton and can stand six feet tall. The bison stretched from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains and numbered in the millions. The buffalo to the Indians were their livelihood. They slaughtered only what they could eat and used the hair and bones for their daily needs. But it was the arrival of white settlers in the 1800s that spelled the end of the buffalo. By 1870, hundreds of thousands of buffalo hides were shipped east each year. Commercial killers weren t the only ones shooting bison. Train companies offered tourists the chance to shoot them from the windows of their coaches. By 1880, the slaughter was almost over. Only a few thousand remained. Sheltered in Yellowstone National Park, it is here that the Native Americans and concerned people are rebuilding the once mighty buffalo nation. Narrated by Keith Carradine.
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