1. AMERICA’S PROGRESS (1872)

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

13. SURVIVAL FOR NATIVE AMERICANS

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

15. PLAINS INDIANS SLAUGHTER BUFFALO FOR SURVIVAL KIOWA

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

20. SLAUGHTERED BUFFALO 1872

23. 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

24. TOO MANY HIDES…

25. ‘PEGGING’ THE HIDE

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

31. BUFFALO SKULLS

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

35. American Indian Territorial Losses

36. 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.

40. COWBOYS and Cattle Drives

41. Frederic Remington

42. Charles Russell

47. Swan Land and Cattle Company

48. XIT Ranch

53. Bill Pickett

55. Winter 1866-67