To be fair, there was a large amount of discussion of the great slaughter of buffalo in the USA, complete with pictures of pyramids of skulls, in my history boo

To be fair, there was a large amount of discussion of the great slaughter of buffalo in the USA, complete with pictures of pyramids of skulls, in my history books as a kid. Of course, now we know that they're bison, not buffalo, but it was obvious that people at the time called them buffalo.