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Article
PBS

Frontier House: The Extermination of the American Buffalo

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: History of a Buffalo Hunter

For Students 9th - 10th
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.