Wood Bison

Colonel Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge (May 19, 1827 – June 16, 1895) was a colonel in the United States Army. Dodge was born in North Carolina and died after a long and successful career in the U.S. Army. He began as a cadet in 1844 and retired as a Colonel May 19, 1891. Dodge was Aide-De-Camp to General William Tecumseh Sherman from 1881–1882. In the second publishing of his memoirs General Sherman wrote, “… the vacancy made by Colonel McCook was filled by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Twenty-third Infantry then serving at a cantonment on the Upper Canadian—an officer who had performed cheerfully and well a … Read more

1913

<< Previous  Next>> / / Wichita Daily Times Wichita Falls, Texas Jan 14 1913 New Herd of Bison of Interest to Scientists WASHINGTON –Government scientists in Washington displayed real interest in a dispatch from Winnipeg a few days ago, announcing that Harry V Radford, the American explorer had discovered more than 350 (? 850) wild buffalo in the Slave lake district of the Hudson Bay country. The wild buffalo of the American plains are gone and nothing remains of them save a few museum and zoological park specimens. Outside of the national zoological park in Washington, the Bronx Zoo, in … Read more

Wood Bison

Most all Wood Bison are in Canada  (Bison bison athabascae)    The skeleton of Charlie the Wood Bison, discovered in 1973 along the Glenmore Reservoir, has been relocated to the Royal Alberta Museum. Ryan White –CTVNewsCalgary.ca Senior Digital Journalist/Producer Decades after being discovered by a 12-year-old boy along the banks of the Glenmore Reservoir, the remains of ‘Charlie the Bison’ have made their way to the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. The nearly complete, 4,600-year-old bison skeleton has been a fixture of the Sunlife Plaza atrium in downtown Calgary for years following its excavation by 12-year-old Nicholas Jones and his … Read more