{"product_id":"gainesville-florida-bison-garment-dyed-heavyweight-tee","title":"Gainesville Florida Bison Garment-Dyed Heavyweight Tee","description":"\u003c!-- STAGE: R4.3T v2 | Gainesville FL town-logo tee | built 2026-08-19, Wed | blank: Comfort Colors 1717, 11 colorways x 6 sizes = 66 variants | keywords: GKP 215\/216 measured lanes | facts verified in GKP 207 R4 build --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are wild bison in Florida — and they live just outside Gainesville. Paynes Prairie, the state's first preserve, keeps a herd on 21,000 acres of savanna where steamboats once crossed a vanished lake. This tee puts the prairie's most improbable resident at the center of a vintage Gainesville badge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"story\" style=\"margin:14px 0 6px\"\u003eWhat's with the bison?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWild American bison roam Paynes Prairie, Florida's first state preserve — 21,000 acres of savanna minutes from downtown Gainesville. The prairie has been improbable for centuries: William Bartram made the Great Alachua Savanna famous in 1774, and from 1871 to 1891 the whole basin turned into a lake deep enough for steamboat lines before draining away in days. Bison were returned to the preserve in the 1970s, and today they share the grass with wild-roaming horses — a scene most people cross the country to see, twenty minutes from a college town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrafted from soft heavyweight garment-dyed premium 6.1 oz ring-spun U.S. cotton, the tee pairs a soft, lived-in hand with enduring structure — relaxed straight silhouette, tubular knit body, double-needle hems, and a smooth, tag-free neckline. Finished with the classic city badge small on the front and the bison badge bold across the back, dyed after sewing so every colorway carries that sun-faded depth from day one. 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