On 1/10/07 6:48 PM, "Shel Belinkoff", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's only partially correct, but it's also a load bullshit, literally. > Bison were killed for sport and for their skins. There were bounties put > on bison and hunters were encouraged to massacre them. The extermination > of the bison was instigated in large part by the British who wanted to > starve the natives and to convert the plains to land more useful to cattle > production in order to satisfy their need/craving for beef. In fact, it > was the Brits who helped finance the railroads. While this is wildly OT (usually, title and the contents part each other in a matter of hours in this list :-), this is interesting history, but sorry, I got lost somewhere. Are bison now extinct (or near extinct) or just endangered specie? I thought I saw a lot of them in western movies in their hey days. ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
