Origin, species, nomenclature
First discovery, distribution
Appearance, habits, and food
Migration, trails, numbers of bison
Natural enemies, diseases
Extermination east of the Mississippi
Extermination west of the Mississippi
Extermination after the Civil War
"Buffalo Bill, " cattlemen, and buffalo
Slaughter of the northern herd
By-products of the buffalo
Domestication of the buffalo
Last remnants and new herds
The American Buffalo Society
The buffalo safe from extinction: Pablo herd; James McKay herd; Goodnight herd; Dupree herd; Buffalo Jones herd; Corbin herd; Whitney herd; Trexler herd; Custer State Park herd; Buffalo under the supervision of the U.S. government: Montana National Bison Range; National Zoological Park (exhibition herd); Niobrara Reservation; Pisgah National Forest and Game preserve (exhibition herd); Platt National Park (exhibition herd); Sully's Hill National Park (exhibition herd); Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve; Wind Cave National Park; Yellowstone National Park; Crow Indian herd; Sioux Pine Ridge Herd; Canadian herds
American Bison Society officers: Honorary president: Theodore Roosevelt; President: William T. Hornaday; Vice-presidents: Charles S. Minot, A.A. Anderson; Treasurer: Edmund Seymour; Secretary: Ernest Harold Baynes.
Illustrations: American bison bull -- Pleistocene and modern bison skulls -- Prehistoric Alaskan bison skull, rear view -- European bison (bison bonasus) -- American bison (bison bison Americanus) -- First known drawing of the American bison -- Head of a wood buffalo -- Canada creates a refuge for the wood buffalo -- Head of a pied buffalo cow -- White buffalo robe / J. Wright Moar -- Decorated Pawnee Indian robe / William Henry Jackson -- Trouble at the ruffing post -- Typical buffalo wallow on the high plains of western Kansas, 1899 -- Development of buffalo horns from two years to twenty years -- Returning from the hunt / W.H. Cary -- Buffalo bull shedding his winter coat / Ernest Harold Baynes -- Calves are born during the shedding season in the spring -- Buffalo on the march: a drawing from eye-witness accounts / M.S. Garretson -- Crossing the Platte at Fort Kearney, Nebraska [painting] / William Henry Jackson -- Dick Rock riding a buffalo that later killed him -- Familiarity leads to carelessness / Ernest Harold Baynes -- It is extremely dangerous to approach a buffalo cow with a calf by her side. She is likely to attack quickly -- In the buffalo corral, he who hesitates is lost -- Buffalo bulls protecting a herd from the wolves / W.M. Cary, Harper's Weekly, 1871 -- A buffalo herd crossing the Platte at Fort Kearney, Nebraska / W.H. Jackson -- Indians stampeding buffalo through an emigrant train in the Platte Valley / W.H. Jackson -- Protests against extermination of the buffalo began in the 'Seventies -- Father Hennepin's drawing of the bison -- Hunting buffalo on horseback required great skill in horse and rider / W.M. Cary -- A "holdup" on the Kansas Pacific Railroad / M.S. Garretson -- Slaughter on the Plains / T.R. Davis -- The still hunt / J.H. Moser -- Hide hunters at work / M.S. Garretson -- Camp of the hide hunters in the Texas Panhandle / George Robertson, 1874 -- Tongue hunter's camp in the Panhandle showing tongues drying -- A buffalo hide yard in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1874 -- In the track of the hide hunter, Timber Creek, Montana / L.A. Huffman, 1878 -- A surround by Minnetares on the Upper Missouri / Catlin, 1832 -- The Indian style of killing buffalo with bow and arrow / Bodmere [sic] Bodmer, 1832-1834 --
Illustrations: William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody
One of the reasons why everybody knew "Buffalo Bill" [dime novel, Buffalo Billy, the boy bullwhacker, or, The doomed thirteen]
After the great slaughter, bones of the buffalo literally whitened vast areas of the Great Plains and provided a fortune for the bone hunters who came afterward
Where the millions have gone / J.H. Moser, 1888
A stack of buffalo skulls and bones
Dakota settlers gathering buffalo bones / J.E. Haynes
The buffalo hunt / Darley, Harper's Weekly, 1858
Buffalo bones were often the support of settlers while raising their first crop / M.S. Garretson
The last buffalo: "Don't shoot, my good fellow! Here, take by 'robe, ' save your ammunition, and let me live in peace, " but his plea was wasted / Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, 1874
a manifest solution / W.M. Cary, Harper's Weekly, 1874. It was generally felt that both the Indians and the buffalo had to go
Indians killing buffalo in the Missouri River / W.M. Cary
Impounding buffalo / from Hind's "Narrative." A wholesale method of killing buffalo by running them into a corral was employed by the Assiniboine, Plains-Cree, and other Indian tribes of the Northwest
An established herd on old Indian hunting grounds, the Wichita Range, Oklahoma
Breaking buffalo calves to the yoke / Ernest Harold Baynes
but still not reliable / Ernest Harold Baynes
Entrance to the Corbin Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve / Ernest Harold Baynes, 1904
The Hornaday group of bison in the Smithsonian Institution
The Corbin herd in winter quarters / Ernest Harold Baynes
Part of the Whiney herd in the New York Zoological Park
Crating buffalo in the New York Zoological Park for shipment to the Wichita Preserve in October, 1907. Fifteen fine specimens formed the nucleus herd
White buffalo calf born on the Montana National Bison Range, May, 1933
The C.E. [Charles E.] Conrad herd, Kalispell, Montana / Ernest Harold Baynes
Crates for shipping the Conrad herd to the Montana Range
Outside for mine! [Buffalo escaping from railroad car] / R. Dunn. An incident when a buffalo herd was shipped without crating. Crates are cheaper, safer, and easier in the long run
Buffalo fording Jamieson Lake in Buffalo National Park, Wainwright, Alberta, Canada.
