American Bison (Bison bison)

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Cowboys, Mountain Men, & Grizzly Bears by Matthew P. Mayo... For more than five thousand years, the Plains Indians hunted buffalo throughout the Rocky Mountains by driving entire herds over high cliffs. The Head-Smashed-In site was in use for many centuries, as evidenced by the thirty-foot-deep deposits of bones at the base. It got its name from the young Blackfoot Indian who wanted to see, up close, the buffalo as they jumped off the cliff. 
In addition to the Head-Smashed-In site, located near Fort Mcleod in Alberta, Canada, Ulm Pishkun Buffalo Jump, the largest in the world, is located just south of Great Falls, Montana. The cliffs there range more than a mile in length, and archaeological digs at their base have turned up evidence of bison bones compacted to a depth of thirteen feet. The site, in use between 900 B.C. and A.D. 1800, was given an extensive mention in Meriwether Lewis's Journals of Wednesday, May 29, 1805.  Reply