Yellowstone Bison are often far from the road in groups of 5-50 animals, often with another group nearby, but out of frame.
These are big animals, but infinitely useful to the native people who used their skins for teepees, robes, blankets, and moccasins; their meat for food; their brains for tanning; their bones for awls, needles and arrow points.
One has to wonder what the first native hunter thought when he came to the boiling pools, hot springs, and geysers of Yellowstone. Here was something you could only dream of: huge basins of boiling water with which to loosen fat and fur from heavy hides. And did it hurt that the water was rich in soda and sometimes sulfur? Not a bit!
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