National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Buffalo Tales: The Near Extermination of the American Bison
This site from the National Humanties Center provides pictures and and offers discussion questions in considering the near-extermination of the American Bison in the late 1800s. Very interesting and informative.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Buffalo Tales: The Near Extermination of the American Bison
This National Humanities Center site offers an article which examines the main techniques on how the Plains Indian tribes hunted the buffalo.
PBS
Pbs the West: A Wound in the Heart
As many as three million buffalo were killed in two years after the coming of the railroad. This site tells the story through quotes from one of the hunters and from Native American writer Scott Momaday and others.
PBS
Pbs the West: Walking Pieces of Gold
A look at the role railroads played in the near-extermination of the American bison.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: Buffalo Hunt, 1846
Before the European settlers almost wiped out the buffalo, there were huge herds roaming the Plains.The buffalo hunts by Native Americans were essential for the survival of the tribes, and were fine tuned challenges between man and...
PBS
Frontier House: The Extermination of the American Buffalo
The reign of the buffalo across the plains ended in great slaughter by the end of the 19th century. This companion essay to the PBS series, Frontier House, recounts how the decimation of the buffalo occurred, hastened by both white and...
PBS
Pbs the West: Gen. Nelson A. Miles on the "Sioux Outbreak"
Statements and reports forwarded up the chain of command in 1891 about the failure of the government to provide either food or other promised support to Sioux Indians after the destruction of buffalo herds.
PBS
Pbs the West: The Grandest Enterprise Under God
The critically acclaimed PBS series, "The West," depicts the coming of the railroad throughout the west and the consequences of the settling of the west.
Library of Congress
Loc: History of a Buffalo Hunter
A manuscript from the Federal Writers' Project gives an interview with Don Manuel Jesus Vasques, who was hired to hunt buffalo in Texas and Oklahoma. Read his fascinating account of the terrible slaughter of the buffalo on the plains.
Harp Week
Harpweek: The American West: Slaughtered for the Hide
Short article about hunting and stripping buffalo for their hides, published in 1874 in Harper's Weekly.
Harp Week
Harpweek: The American West: Buffalo Hunting
An engraving and short article about "sport" hunting of buffalo from an 1867 Harper's Weekly magazine.