passing of the buff

With the early colonization of the eastern sea board of America nearly wiped out the eastern buffalo. The hides of the buffalo were turned into the finest robes, leather of all kinds, and were used as belts for many manufacturing machines. The Indians of the plains could not live without the buffalo, they provided food, clothing, and they were very sacred to the Native Americans of the plains region. Buffalo Bill, whom the Kansas Pacific Railway, to gain much of his fame from having butchered 4,280 buffalo in a single eighteen-month period hired as a meat hunter. Due to this, these species are endangered and have been preserved to be able to show all Americans this once large and magnificent beast’s beauty and history!

. As a personal means of entertainment, whenever the train passed a nearby herd of buffalos, they would stop and let the passengers engage in a shooting-range of buffaloes. “ By the 1800’s, according to the assessment of naturalist-writer Ernest Thompson Seton, some 40 million buffalo remained alive in North America, almost all of them west of the Mississippi Valley”. The Railroad Companies also used buffalo for entertainment purposes.

The second reason, because of the profits made from the killings of the buffaloes. The first was to destroy the western Indian nations. In 1815, a bull was killed near Charleston, West Virginia. ” This brought about the great fur trade in the new world, the English, Spanish, and French sought the fur of the buffalo and were in heavy competition for the animal.

The Plains and the wood buffalo were destroyed because of three interlinked motifys. Carver, boasted of having killed forty buffalo in a “twenty minute run” on horseback and of having slaughtered 5,000 during a single summer”.