Buffalo
Overland travelers almost always made some mention of buffalo. The mere sight of so many animals in such vast herds amazed them. Estimates have placed the number of ...
Buffalo
What We Found
Buffalo and Cow Chips
The scarcity of wood west of the one hundredth meridian forced a reliance on animal-made fuel there. Buffalo excrement, when allowed to dry a few weeks in the hot Plains ...
Buffalo at Sidney, 1872
Thousands of buffalo still roamed the plains of Nebraska as late as 1875. As the prairies filled with homesteaders, the buffalo inevitably came into conflict with them, ...
Buffalo Hunt, 1871
Buffalo were still relatively plentiful in western Nebraska in the early 1870s, and Nebraskans from more settled areas often went on hunting excursions. The exploits of ...
Buffalo Hunt, by J. E. Johnson
Joseph E. Johnson, editor and publisher of The Huntsman's Echo of Wood River Centre in Buffalo County, took a hunting and exploring trip with friends during the summer ...
Buffalo Hunting
In late October 1877 young Rolf Johnson and three friends left their homes in Phelps County, Nebraska, for a buffalo hunt in northeastern Colorado. The hunt was not very ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Last Buffalo and Other Hunting Stories
When A. N. Ward reminisced about his early hunting exploits with a reporter from the Omaha World-Herald in 1910, he recalled the days when the Nebraska prairie abounded ...
“A burning shame” – defending bison in 1874
Some Nebraskans were aware of the values of wildlife conservation years before effective measures were enacted into law. The Daily Nebraska State Journal of Lincoln ...
Buffalo Hunt at Niagara Falls
Capturing and shipping buffalo to Niagara Falls was no small task. NSHS RG3211-74 (above)
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, billed as “the most celebrated Scout and ...
Buffalo Bones Once Plentiful on Nebraska Prairie
Unloading buffalo bones at rail terminal, Dakota Territory, in 1885. NSHS RG1204-3-2
The slaughter of the buffalo left the prairie marked by millions of tons of ...
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