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AMERICA’S PROGRESS (1872)

AMERICA’S PROGRESS (1872). HOME ON THE RANGE. THE DEMISE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BISON. SURVIVAL FOR NATIVE AMERICANS. WHERE THEY ROAMED …. 50-60 MILLION BISON ROAMED THE GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. PLAINS INDIANS SLAUGHTER BUFFALO FOR SURVIVAL. KIOWA. THE HUNTERS.

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AMERICA’S PROGRESS (1872)

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  1. AMERICA’S PROGRESS(1872)

  2. HOME ON THE RANGE THE DEMISE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BISON

  3. SURVIVAL FOR NATIVE AMERICANS

  4. WHERE THEY ROAMED… 50-60 MILLION BISON ROAMED THE GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

  5. PLAINS INDIANS SLAUGHTER BUFFALO FOR SURVIVAL KIOWA

  6. THE HUNTERS Bat Masterson Pat Garrett Wild Bill Hickok Buffalo Bill Wyatt Earp

  7. SLAUGHTERED BUFFALO 1872

  8. HOW MANY HIDES? THE ‘GUN CULTURE’ OF THE WHITES BROUGHT TO THE PLAINS INCREASED THE NUMBER OF BISON HUNTED BY THE PLAINS INDIANS AS WELL

  9. TOO MANY HIDES…

  10. ‘PEGGING’ THE HIDE

  11. Shipped via Rail from Kansas: 1872-1874 918,906 bison hides 21,586,700 pounds bison bones

  12. BUFFALO SKULLS

  13. THE PROFIT • $4.85 PER HIDE (SOME COULD KILL 250/DAY) • $.25 PER TONGUE • $8.00 PER TON OF BUFFALO BONES (100 CARCASSES)

  14. American Indian Territorial Losses

  15. 1884: 1200-2000 BISON LEFT ON THE PLAINS • 2007: 150,000 HERD BISON DUE TO THE WORK OF PRESERVATIIONISTS • THE AMERICAN INDIAN? GONE EXCEPT FOR RESERVATIONISTS AND COMMUNITY DWELLERS.

  16. COWBOYS and Cattle Drives

  17. Frederic Remington

  18. Charles Russell

  19. Swan Land and Cattle Company

  20. XIT Ranch

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