oupacademic:“Against Indian resistance, professional buffalo hunters moved onto the southern p
oupacademic:“Against Indian resistance, professional buffalo hunters moved onto the southern plains in the 1870s. The southern hunt peaked between 1872 and 1874. In all, the hide hunters took an estimated 4,374,000 buffalo during these years. To this has to be added the Indian kill of approximately 1,215,000 on the southern plains during this same period, as well as the number of bison killed by settlers and sportsmen. In the 1870s, Congress passed a bill protecting the bison, but President Ulysses Grant vetoed it.”—Richard White in “Animals and Enterprise,” from The Oxford History of the American West.Image credit: Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. -- source link
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