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  • Season 2 Episode 5: Bison of the Bighorn Basin
    Note: Strontium analysis is another stable isotope system which looks at the geographic distribution of 87Sr/86Sr ratios in surface sediments to reconstruct mobility
    across a Sr "isoscape". Stable isotope analysis refers to oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen, but for ease of speech in this episode we've grouped them all together under "stable isotope analysis".


    Wyoming's Archaeology Awareness Month website

    Meeteetse Museums' Bison of the Bighorn Basin Project Update (February 2021)
    Skinner and Kaisen measurements used in the study can be found here starting on page 144

    Donate to the Meeteetse Museums Bison of the Bighorn Basin

    Project: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/donate-to-meeteetse-museums/

    Archaeology and Wildlife Management:

    "What the Past Can Provide: Contribution of Prehistoric Bison Studies to Modern Bison Management" by Kenneth P. Cannon

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

    Fish and Wildlife Service 2011 poster on archaeology and wildlife management

     

    Gilbert Peak Bison:

    "'They Went as High as They Choose': What an Isolated Skull Can Tell Us About the Biogeography of High-Altitude Bison" by Kenneth P. Cannon

    Stable Isotope Analysis:

    “Middle Holocene Bison Diet and Mobility in the Eastern

    Great Plains (USA) Based on ?13C, ?18O, and 87Sr/86Sr analyses of tooth enamel
    carbonate” by Chris Widga, J. Douglas Walker, and Lisa Stockli can be found here


    For more information on bison locally: 

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

    41 min
  • Season 2 Episode 2: Bison the Hunted

    Bison Bone terminology can be found here thanks to GRSLE Archaeology

     

    Mass Kill Sites

    Vore Site:

    Vore Buffalo Jump websiteWyoHistory entry on the Vore Buffalo Jump
    UWYO Extension Office tour of Vore Buffalo Jump
    Visit Vore Buffalo Jump through this 3D model

     

    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

    "The Horner Site: The Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex" edited by George C Frison and Lawrence C Todd can be found through the Wyoming Public Libraries


    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:

    Fish and Wildlife Service timeline of the American Bison
    "'Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead is an Indian Gone' The American bison is the New U.S. National Mammal, But its Slaughter Was Once Seen as a Way to Starve Native Americans into Submission" by J. Weston Phippen

    "Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed: The Transcontinental Railroad Connected East and West- and Accelerated the Destruction of What Had Been in the Center of North America" by Gilbert King, the Smithsonian Magazine

    33 min
  • Season 2 Episode 4: Return of the Bison

    Restoration of bison to tribal lands:

    “Restoring Bison to Tribal Lands” The National Wildlife

    Federation article can be found here

    “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

    "Wildlife that Depend on Bison" by Abby Barber, National Wildlife Federation
    “Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great
    Plains” By Keith Aune & Glenn Plumb, not available through the Park County
    Library System, but available through Legends Bookstore 
    30 min
  • Season 2 Episode 1: Bison Through Time

    Links to papers

    and topics mentioned in the podcast:

    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

    Texas is detailed in the paper "Thermal Biology and Growth of Bison (Bison bison) Along the Great Plains: Examining Four Theories of Endotherm Body Size" by Jeff M. Martin and Perry Barboza


    Horner Site

    "The Horner Site: Taphonomy of an Early Holocene Bison Bonebed" Ph.D. Thesis of 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 listing on the Horner Site

    "The Horner Site: The Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex" edited by George C. Frison and Lawrence C. Todd can be found through the Wyoming Library here


    Additional

    Resources

    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

    31 min
  • Season 2 Episode 3: The North American Bison

    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

    "How William F. Cody Helped Save the Buffalo Without Really Trying" by David Nesheim


    "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

    National Buffalo Foundation's Hall of Fame honorees, Charles Jess "Buffalo" Jones

     

    US Army Guarding Bison in Yellowstone National Park

    YouTube video on the US Army's presence in Yellowstone National Park

     

    North American Model

    Fish and Wildlife Service: North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

     

    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

    22 min
  • Native American Service Men and Women

    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

    Native American veterans include Louis E Allard, Fredrick Bernard, John Frost,
    Delbert Garthwaite, and Marion Barnhart.

    40 min

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