The Great American Buffalo

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The Great American Buffalo

By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeter on the brink of extinction, but an unlikely collection of Americans have started a few private herds in different locations, and for different reasons.

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Series 1
Ken Burns recounts how the collision between two opposing views of the natural world saw the buffalo, which had numbered in the tens of millions, driven to the brink of extinction.
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