A man named for this animal responded to a mass shooting in the Council House by leading the Great Raid of 1840.
A man named for this animal responded to a mass shooting in the Council House by leading the Great Raid of 1840. Members of a group nicknamed for this animal were accused of killing a bartender and a policeman in the Brownsville Affair. The term pishkun refers to their namesake "jumps," cliffs that these animals were forced to run off. Slow-moving (*) "sporting car" trains allowed passengers to shoot at these animals. This animal provided the nickname for African-American cavalry units who fought in the Indian Wars, and the nickname of a man who traveled with Annie Oakley as part of his Wild West show. For 10 points, name this animal that roamed the Great Plains before it was hunted to near-extinction.
A man named for this animal responded to a mass shooting in the Council House by leading the Great Raid of 1840.
buffalo [or American bison]