Not long ago 30 million buffalo thundered across the land we now call North America. By the late 1800s, a calculated extermination campaign had nearly extinguished this mythic being, leaving less than 500 animals in its ferocious wake. Today it is nearly impossible to imagine, let alone feel, millions of hooves drumming in our stomach; smell churned earth and musky beast rising on hot prairie air; see the vast ocean of animals that fed us, clothed...
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