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The buffalo, known as bison, came to North America long ago from Asia across the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska. Their range stretched from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains and numbered in the millions. To the Indians, buffalo were their livelihood. The arrival of white settlers in the 1800s spelled the end of the buffalo. Hundreds of thousands of hides were shipped east each year. Train companies offered tourists the chance to shoot them from the coaches. By 1880, only a few thousand remained. Now, protected and sheltered in Yellowstone National Park, the Native Americans and concerned people are rebuilding the once mighty buffalo nation.