American Buffalo
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With the buffalo teetering on the brink of extinction, a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans comes to the rescue by starting small herds in different locations - and for different reasons.
51:48By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions have been reduced to fewer than 1,000 and teeter on the brink of extinction.
51:44By the 1880s the buffalo had been driven to the brink of extinction by newcomers to the continent. Ken Burns recounts the collision, and tragic consequences, of two opposing views of the natural world
51:50For thousands of years, America's national mammal numbered in the tens of millions, sustaining the Native people of the Great Plains, whose cultures became spiritually intertwined with the animal.