Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wives. Thank you very much for

tuning in today for some Texas history. Today we are going to talk about the

American buffalo. Now technically these animals are or I should say more correctly. They're called

Bison. So you're going to hear me use the term Bison in Buffalo interchangeably because that's how we've done it for over a hundred

years and I'm not about to change so don't bother emailing me about that. They're

often called the American Buffalo, often called Bison. So here we go. The meat of this episode, pun intended, is

not really the history of the Bison in North America or even about saving them

from extinction, although I am going to talk a little bit about that.

I heard a great story a little while back about a buffalo versus bull fight, and it was

too good not to tell. So if you hold your mouth just right and

squint a little bit we can somehow call this Texas history kind of sorta but

we're gonna roll with it. Now no doubt you've heard sort of

but we're gonna roll with it now no doubt you've heard all about the great herds of buffalo that used to roam the plains and in

prehistoric times there were millions of buffalo roaming North America from the forests of Alaska all the way down into Mexico

all the way west to what's now Nevada and east to the Appalachian Mountains.

And here are a few facts about the bison that are pretty interesting.

They are the largest mammal in North America.

The bulls can weigh up to 2,000 pounds. They can stand up to 6 feet tall.

The females, the males are called bulls, the females are called cows. The females weigh up to about a thousand pounds and

they can reach a height of four to five feet.

Yellowstone National Park is the only place in the United States where Bison have continuously lived since

prehistoric times.

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