Leavenworth , Kansas, became a trading center for the buffalo hides, and tanneries found even more, uses for the material, such as making drive belts for industrial machines and grinding buffalo bones into fertilizer.
In some places, buffalo tongues became a delicacy in fine restaurants. Soon, the demand for buffalo had increased to such a degree that year-round work was available for buffalo hunters. This, all occurring when the economy was depressed after the Civil War, led many a tough man to earn his living as a buffalo hunter.
Armed with powerful, long-range rifles, individual hunters could kill as many as buffalo a day. Cody , just to name a few. Unfortunately, once these hides and tongues were taken from the carcasses, the edible buffalo meat was often left to rot on the Plains. By the s, over 5, hunters and skinners were involved in the trade. Seeing a way to capitalize on the problem, the advertising flooded the newspapers, and in no time, sporting men with rifles were shooting buffalo by the hundreds just for fun.
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Sign in. Feedback Recent updates Help. See all. Recent updates. American Buffalo. In , Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in the Alaskan wilderness. At the time of the Revolutionary War, North America was home to approximately 40 million buffalo, the largest herd of big mammals on the planet, but by the mids only a few hundred remained.
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