Actually it was a little of both. But even after the pacification of
the natives the slaughter continued to supply the delicacy of Buffalo
tongue, and because the Bison were a nuisance delaying trains by taking
shelter from storms in railroad cuts which kept trains from using them,
and damaging locomotives that failed to stop in time.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> frank theriault wrote:
>
>> In addition, the slaughter, almost to extinction, of the American
>> Bison was a conscientious attempt to eliminate something that, both
>> physically and spiritually, was necessary to Native survival in the
>> West.
>>
>>
> The extinction of the bison was largely the result of an attempt to feed the
> men who built the transcontinental railroad.
>
>
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