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Archaeologists find 8,000-year-old flint spearheads made by nomadic tribes that hunted bison and moose near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. |
Itasca Bison Site |
Itasca State Park, MN |
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About 60 million American bison roam across North America, from the Beaufot Sea in the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. |
North America |
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| 1830/00/00 |
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An estimated 40 million Bison live on North America plains. Slaughter of the great herds is only escalating. |
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| 1844/00/00 |
Hudson's Bay Company |
History |
The Hudson Bay Company trades 75,000 bison robes at Canadian posts. |
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| 1860/00/00 |
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In Idaho Territory, bison are forced over a cliff for slaughter by Native Americans pursuers as late as 1840-1860. |
Challis Bison Jump Site |
Challis, ID |
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| 1863/00/00 |
D Appleton and Company |
Publisher |
The meat of all large animals is better roasted than dressed in any other way. Prepare, cook, and served bear and buffalo meat like venison, or like an a la mode beef. - What to Eat and How to Cook It, Pierre Blot, D Appleton and Company: New York |
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| 1864/00/00 |
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The Idaho Territory Legislature passes the first law to protect the American bison, although none remain in the state. Railroads built across the Great Plains splits the bison into two main herds. |
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| 1870/00/00 |
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About 2 million bison are killed on the southern plains. Germany had developed a process to tan bison hides into fine leather. Bones, often collected by homesteaders, are used to refine sugar and making fertilizer and fine bone china. |
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| 1872/00/00 |
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Over a two year period, an average of 5,000 American bison are slaughtered daily as Bison hunting becomes a popular sport with the wealthy. One railroad ships over a million pounds of bones. Hides sell for $1.25, tongues for 25 cents each. |
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| 1873/00/00 |
Columbus Delano |
US Secretary of the Interior |
I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western prairies, in the effect upon the Indians. I would regard it rather as a means of hastening their sense of dependence upon the products of the soil and their own labors. |
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| 1880/00/00 |
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Between 1868 and 1881, the bones of about 31 million bison are traded in Kansas, generating about 2.5 million dollars. |
Kansas |
United States of America |
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| 1884/00/00 |
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The US Army begins protecting a herd of 25 American Bison in Yellowstone from poachers. With about 325 wild bison alive in the United States, Yellowstone is the only place in the country where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. |
Yellowstone National Park, MT, WY |
Wyoming |
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| 1884/00/00 |
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The US Army begins protecting a herd of 25 American Bison in Yellowstone from poachers. With about 325 wild bison alive in the United States, Yellowstone is the only place in the country where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. |
Yellowstone National Park, MT, WY |
Montana |
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| 1886/11/06 |
William T Hornaday |
Zoologist |
Led by William T Hornaday, the Smithsonian's expedition to collect buffalo specimens "camps on the Big Porcupine" on a bend in McGinnis Creek from November 5 or 6 to 13 December 1886. |
Hornaday Camp |
Sand Springs |
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| 1889/00/00 |
William T Hornaday |
Zoologist |
Commercial shipments of Bison hides cease in United States. William Hornaday estimates the total bison population to be 1000 animals: 85 free ranging, 200 in Yellowstone, 550 at Great Slave Lake, Canada, and 256 in zoos and private herds. |
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| 1895/00/00 |
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The tongues, humps, and marrow-bones are regarded as the choice parts of the animal.... The marrow, when roasted in the bones, is delicious. The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, Randolph B Marcy |
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| 1902/00/00 |
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The Yellowstone herd of Bison is estimated to be 23 animals while there are 700 bison in private herds in the United States and Canada. |
Yellowstone National Park, MT, WY |
Wyoming |
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| 1902/00/00 |
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The Yellowstone herd of Bison is estimated to be 23 animals while there are 700 bison in private herds in the United States and Canada. |
Yellowstone National Park, MT, WY |
Montana |
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| 1905/00/00 |
William T Hornaday |
Zoologist |
The American Bison Society is established at a meeting in the NY Zoological Park's Lion House by Ernest Harold Baynes, William T Hornaday and others to protect and restore bison herds. |
Rainey Memorial Gates |
New York City |
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| 1907/00/00 |
American Bison Society |
Benefactor |
About 15 bison selected from the NY Zoological Park by William Hornaday are packed into crates, loaded onto a Wells Fargo Express passenger train at Fordham Station in the Bronx and shipped 1,858-miles to Cache, Oklahoma. |
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge |
Oklahoma |
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| 1908/00/00 |
American Bison Society |
Benefactor |
National Bison Range is established as a permanent refuge for herds of bison presented by the American Bison Society. |
National Bison Range |
Montana |
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| 1913/00/00 |
American Bison Society |
Benefactor |
The New York Zoological Society sends 14 bison to Wind Cave National Park. |
Wind Cave National Park |
South Dakota |
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| 1935/00/00 |
American Bison Society |
Benefactor |
Confident in the survival of majestic American Bison in public herds, the American Bison Society votes to close the organization. |
Rainey Memorial Gates |
New York City |
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