Scotty Phillips’
…of buffalo which not many years ago roamed over the country west of the Missouri river, the only herd of any importance as to numbers is now in the possession…
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1801-1810
…the name of “Buffaloe Marsh” The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser Washington City DC October 21, 1803 (extract) There is a non-descript quadruped found high up the Missouri, about…
1885
…Yellowstone and 107,000 on the Missouri. In 1881 the Yellowstone country yielded about 140,000 buffalo robes and 73,000 antelope and deer skins. The Missouri river districts sent nearly 100,000 buffalo…
Frontier Army-Destruction of the Buffalo
…destruction, be sufficient to exterminate the species.” (27) At Fort Dodge in April 1867, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, then commander of the Department of the Missouri, which embraced Missouri,…
Buffalo Tongue Market
…stage of the water in the Missouri, the Yellowstone was unable to proceed beyond Fort Tecumseh, the mouth of the little Missouri, 1,300 miles above St. Louis. This is 600…
Wood Bison
…, and the Peace River, as over the plains of the Missouri. Franklin, in 1820, met with a few at Slave Point , on the north side of Great Slave…
1868
…the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, and the western terminus of the Pacific Railway of Missouri; and as soon as the magnificent bridge across the Missouri…
Last of the Bison by State
…as plentiful between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan as they had been in our day between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains; that the American buffalo on this…