My Bison Rant for Today

[Rowdy Rick]

I actually addressed this a bit in an upcoming article for The American Sharps Shooters.

Rick

Look forward to reading it! Even the great naturalist William Hornaday entitles his topic the "American Bison or Buffalo" then goes on to use Buffalo throughout his descriptions.

It was more just a sentence or two alluding to the same topic as your post, just thought it interesting that I was not the only one to feel that way

William Hornaday in "The Extermination of the Bison" wrote this in 1886:

Although Bison americanus is a true bison, according to scientific classification, and not a buffalo, the fact that more than sixty millions of people in this country unite in calling him a “buffalo,” and know him by no other name, renders it quite unnecessary for me to apologize for following, in part, a harmless custom which has now become so universal that all the naturalists in the world could not change it if they would.

Rick