Rabu, 28 Maret 2018

Skin and Bones: The Plains Buffalo Trades Flourished

It was business as usual even after the bison all but vanished. Probably no late 19th-century American business venture affected Western settlement as profoundly as the buffalo trade. Even the railroads owed much to the ragged hide hunters; without them it would have been impossible to crisscross the Great Plains with tracks, let alone run …

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