Kill the food, kill the Indian. I am too lazy to tell the stinkhole story. One year buffalo just didn't come back to the northern range. Here is a haunting painting.
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| by Judith Dragonette |
RECENT NEWS: The bull, the living embodiment of this country's untamed spirit, was killed for walking onto the hobby ranch of the wealthy Povah family. Mr. Povah had complained that the buffalo was "threatening my fence." The Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) agent that shot him made no attempt to move the bull off the private property and onto the adjacent Gallatin National Forest.
Buffalo Field Campaign West Yellowstone, penning, corrals, captivity, brucellosis etc.
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| circa 1870. source: Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library |
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Bison herds could delay a train for days.
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