Buffalo

One of our favorite things about the Wildlife Refuge is the Buffalo.
I took a picture that included the road so that you can see the buffalo roam freely.

From the gift shop we picked out a book titled
Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker
The pictures in the book are black and white charcoal drawings......I love, love, love them.




FYI: Buffalo or Bison?
Historians are undecided on the origin of buffalo as the name for the North American bison, although some speculate that early European explorers likened the unknown bison to the more familiar African and Asian buffalo. A related view is that the word ‘buffalo’ is derived from terms in other languages used by explorers to describe the unfamiliar beast, including, bisonte, buffes, buffelo, buffles, and buffalo. These terms are similar to bufle and buffe, which were commonly used to refer to any animal that provided good hide for buff leather. Despite the misnomer, the term ‘buffalo’ has been used interchangeably with ‘bison’ since early explorers first discovered the North American species, and has become entrenched as a colloquialism in North American culture and language.