That's what they want you to believe but I'm not fooled. My instincts are too keen. I also wasn't fooled by this place, though I still haven't found the location of the real museum.
Posted on 04/25/2018 6:36:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Speaking of culturally appropriate activities at the time, if Texas buffalo hunters hadn’t decimated the herds of millions of buffalos, those big bastards would be running wild through our cities and towns today.
I wrote a song about it once.
Not running wild, but contained in huge tracts of prairie. We’d all be eating buffalo burgers that cost 25 cents and the world hunger problems would go away..................
The buffalo mostly died out from brucellosis and the awful winter of 1876 after 10 years of nearly perfect buffalo weather.
Humans killed about 6-8 million.
Here is something that is worth a cloning experiment. Along with the passenger pigeon.
I was recently visiting the Tower of London and using my keen detective skills and amateur archeological instincts, I discovered the Crown Jewels there!
That would make a huge passenger pigeon......................
I just read that book!.....................
nice one ;)
Since the stories of Sinbad predate the extinction of the Elephant Bird, the stories may have been inspired by Arab traders and sailors who landed upon Madagascar for trade and supplies, and who saw the birds.......................
They are fakes.................the real ones are in a secret vault far away...................
That's what they want you to believe but I'm not fooled. My instincts are too keen. I also wasn't fooled by this place, though I still haven't found the location of the real museum.
Oh I am sure!
I AGREE. I was just going with the meme that God-awful humans without proper gun control were responsible.
I also think the herds were a lot smaller than the awed reports of the time stated.
60 million buffs in 1873.
In 1873 you set up camp and waited for the buffalo to come to you. By 1877 you had to travel to find them, sometimes long distances. Other maladies were probably common in the herds as well.
From an interview with a former buffalo hunter in the early 1900s. He also stated that most buffalo hunters went broke in their first year out. Very tough industry.
I think you have your year wrong. Probably 1886, part of a 5 year volcanic winter following the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Seventy five% of cattle were lost in 1886. Also several other major volcanoes around that time.
https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/now-thats-cold-the-worst-7-winters-in-american-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_volcanic_eruptions_of_the_19th_century
This was a period when many settlers were traveling west with horses, oxen and other livestock from various areas of the east coat. Probably introduced some new diseases as well. Also see my Comment #56.
Thank you for the correction. The hard winters of the late 1880s were devastating to the beef industry.
The comments concerning the serious brucellosis are correct. The largest of buffalo hunter teams could process about 125 buffalos per day. The normal sized team could do 20 to 25 per day.
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