Donate to the Meeteetse Museums Bison of the Bighorn Basin

Archaeology and Wildlife Management:

"The Use of Natural History Collections to Inform Baseline Ecological Conditions: Case Studies from Paleontology, Archaeology, and Historical Zoology" by Chris Widga et al

Gilbert Peak Bison:

Stable Isotope Analysis:

“Middle Holocene Bison Diet and Mobility in the Eastern

For more information on bison locally: 

Dr. Ken Cannon's 2020 presentation on Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Bison Bone terminology can be found here thanks to GRSLE Archaeology

Mass Kill Sites

Vore Site:

Horner Site:

"The Horner Site: Taphonomy of an Early Holocene Bison Bonebed" PhD Thesis by Dr. Lawrence Todd

"The Ecology of Early Holocene Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming: Preliminary Results from the Horner Site" by Kenneth P. Cannon, S.H. Hughes, and C. Simpson

Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office entry on the Horner Site

More information on Mass Kill/Jump Sites:

"Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains" by Jack W. Brink can be found through Legends Bookstore here

Bison at the End of the 19th Century:

Restoration of bison to tribal lands:

“Restoring Bison to Tribal Lands” The National Wildlife

“Boy-zshan Bi-den (Buffalo Return)” short film on YouTube

Cattle Genetics:

American Beefalo Association Website

Beefalo writeup by Oklahoma State University

Ecological Integrity:

Video on ecological integrity and public lands, mostly as pertaining to waterways

"Measuring Ecological Integrity: History, Practical Applications, and Research Opportunities" by Zachary Wurtzebach and Courtney Schultz

Bison as a Keystone Species:

Bison as a Keystone Species webpage by the Ohio Wesleyan University

American Prairie blog entry on "Moving Bison" and their role in the ecosystem

"The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie" by Knapp et al

Links to papers

La Brea Tar Pits website

Dr. Martin’s 2018 paper “Bison Body Size and Climate Change” can be found here.

Dr. Jeff Martin presentation on thermoregulation can be watched here.

Dr. Martin’s research on 19 bison herds from Saskatchewan to

Horner Site

"The Ecology of Early Holocene Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming: Preliminary Results from the Horner Site" by Kenneth P. Cannon, S.H. Hughes, and C. Simpson

Additional

More reading on bison body size:

"Some Like it Hot: Bison (Bison bison) Don't" by Jeff M. Martin and Perry Barboza

"Late Quaternary Bison Diminution on the Great Plains of North America: Evaluating the Role of Human Hunting Versus Climate Change" by Matthew E. Hill, Matthew G. Hill, and Chris Widga

For more on bison arrival in North America:

"DNA Research

Dr. Jeff Martin’s work with Grand Canyon/Colorado Plateau bison

"Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of the Colorado Plateau" by Jeff M. Martin, Rachel A. Short, and Jim I. Mead

"Reevaluation of Bison Remains from the Greater Grand Canyon Region and the Colorado Plateau: Native or Non-Native?" by Jeff M. Martin and Jim I. Mead

"Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau: Implications from the Use of Paleobiology for Natural Resource Management Policy" Master's Thesis by Jeff M. Martin

Conservation in the Late 19th Century 

"The Extermination of the American Bison" by William T. Hornaday

Buffalo Bill’s work to save bison

"Buffalo Bill and the Fight to Save Yellowstone's Wildlife" by Jeremy Johnston, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

"How Buffalo Bill Got His Name" by the Park County Travel Council 

Charles Jesse “Buffalo” Jones

US Army Guarding Bison in Yellowstone National Park

North American Model

For more information on John Muir:

Exhibit by the Sierra Club on John Muir

"John Muir's Yosemite" by Terry Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine

PBS Biography of Joh

Earlier in the first season of this podcast, we learned about Meeteetse's veterans who fought during the "Indian Wars". When those veterans retired to Meeteetse, they lived side-by-side with the people they had been fighting against. In this episode, we take a deep-dive into a history not often spoken about: Native American military service in the United States. We speak with Dr. William Meadows, a cultural anthropologist who has spent much of his career learning about Native American military veterans through field work, and Dr. Jeff Means, an enrolled Member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and veteran of the US Marine Corps. Meeteetse’s