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.