Ken Burns turns his camera on the besieged American buffalo
Ken Burns turns his camera on the besieged American buffalo
Ken Burns says he has thought about the American buffalo his whole life: “It may be the most important mammal in American history. He explains that this “magnificent” but beleaguered animal, which roamed the Great Plains by the tens of millions less than 200 years ago, has often stalked the background of his films – figuratively and literally – over the course of his career as an Americana documentarian. “The buffalo intersects with all these interesting parts of American history,” he says, which is why he’s been planning a project on its fate for nearly 40 years. But he’s glad he waited. Time, he says, has helped him better understand the nuances of what he calls an “epic American calamity.”
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