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The American Buffalo

"President Rooseveltmay easily be imagined stamping his feetand grinding his teeth," a...

"President Roosevelt
may easily be imagined stamping his feet
and grinding his teeth," a Denver newspaper reported, "when he hears that
his cherished ambition "to secure for
American national parks "the famous herd
belonging to Michel Pablo "has been defeated by energetic officials of
the Canadian government." The American Bison Society used
all the negative publicity to push Congress into
appropriating $40,000 to purchase and fence
29 square miles of land in the Flathead Reservation
for a new buffalo preserve-- not far from where
Pablo's herd had once grazed

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"President Roosevelt may easily be imagined
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stamping his feet and grinding his teeth,"
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a Denver newspaper reported,
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"when he hears that his cherished ambition
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"to secure for American national parks
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"the famous herd belonging to Michel Pablo
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"has been defeated by
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energetic officials of the Canadian government."
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The American Bison Society used all the negative publicity
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to push Congress into appropriating $40,000
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to purchase and fence 29 square miles of land
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in the Flathead Reservation for a new buffalo preserve--
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not far from where Pablo's herd had once grazed.
Duration
46 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:37:06
Uploaded
Apr 22, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2

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Movie Summary

A journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution.