1901 5 May (Sunny South section) 10/4 She was charging blindly to the distant surf-whitened edge of the water like an old plains bison to the edge of a canyon.
1960 (Nat. Geogr. Soc.) 103/2 Plains bison were introduced years ago.
1994 5 Nov. 45/1 Many Americans have long taken bison conservation seriously. Now 11 000 or so plains bison, Bison bison bison, and another 2 900 or so ‘wood bison’, B.b. athabascae..live in about 50 public reserves in North America.