But buffalo, notoriously cantankerous creatures with short tempers and sharp horns, have not roamed free here for more than a hundred years.
Before that, the Spanish did, and buffalo roamed - often overgrazing, but never staying in one place for long.
Scholars believe that at one point more than 30 million buffalo roamed the West.
In 1691 the buffalo (bison bison) roamed the prairies by the thousands.
Q. How many buffalo are roaming the hills and prairies of North America today?
You know, where the buffalo don't roam and the skies are cloudy all day.
The spirit of the Old West is pervasive in this town where the buffalo once roamed and the oil pumps go up and down all day.
Where the buffalo roamed, where the deer and the antelope played for twenty thousand years.
The buffalo roamed, the gnu grazed and the lion roared.
Within this wilderness, buffalo still roam free and visitors can also find bighorn sheep, coyotes and mule deer.