- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Part one Relationships, Relationships -
Chapter 1 Bull to Bull and Cow to Bull -
Chapter 2 Cow to Cow -
Chapter 3 Cow to Calf -
Part Two The Machinery of a Bison’s Life -
Chapter 4 Bison Athletics -
Chapter 5 Digestion -
Chapter 6 Temperature Control -
Part Three Whence they Came Forth, and how Much they Multiplied -
Chapter 7 Ancestors and Relatives -
Chapter 8 How Many? -
Part Four The Bison’s Neighborhood -
Chapter 9 The Central Grassland -
PART FIVE The Bison’s Neighbors -
Chapter 10 Wolves and Bison -
Chapter 11 Buffalo Birds -
Chapter 12 Diseases and Parasites -
Chapter 13 Pronghorn -
Chapter 14 Prairie Dogs -
Chapter 15 Badgers -
Chapter 16 Coyotes -
Chapter 17 Grizzlies -
Chapter 18 Ferrets -
Part Six Human and Buffalo -
Chapter 19 Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind -
Chapter 20 To Kill a Bison -
Chapter 21 Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter -
Chapter 22 Where have all the Bison Gone? -
Chapter 23 Attitudes -
Chapter 24 Conservation -
Chapter 25 A Great Plains Park - Bibliography
- Index
Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter
Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter
- Chapter:
- (p.167) Chapter 21 Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter
- Source:
- American Bison
- Author(s):
Dale F. Lott
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The difficulty of estimating the bison population of primitive America shrinks in comparison to trying to estimate the numbers in North America just after the Civil War — just before the start of the commercial hide hunt often called “the Great Slaughter.” Many forces — horseback hunting, robe trading, habitat degradation — bore down on bison in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Even the weather turned against them. One may assume with reasonable certainty that the bison population west of the Mississippi River at the close of the Civil War numbered in the millions, probably in the tens of millions.
Keywords: primitive America, bison population, commercial hide hunt, horseback hunting, robe trading, habitat degradation, Civil War
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- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Part one Relationships, Relationships -
Chapter 1 Bull to Bull and Cow to Bull -
Chapter 2 Cow to Cow -
Chapter 3 Cow to Calf -
Part Two The Machinery of a Bison’s Life -
Chapter 4 Bison Athletics -
Chapter 5 Digestion -
Chapter 6 Temperature Control -
Part Three Whence they Came Forth, and how Much they Multiplied -
Chapter 7 Ancestors and Relatives -
Chapter 8 How Many? -
Part Four The Bison’s Neighborhood -
Chapter 9 The Central Grassland -
PART FIVE The Bison’s Neighbors -
Chapter 10 Wolves and Bison -
Chapter 11 Buffalo Birds -
Chapter 12 Diseases and Parasites -
Chapter 13 Pronghorn -
Chapter 14 Prairie Dogs -
Chapter 15 Badgers -
Chapter 16 Coyotes -
Chapter 17 Grizzlies -
Chapter 18 Ferrets -
Part Six Human and Buffalo -
Chapter 19 Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind -
Chapter 20 To Kill a Bison -
Chapter 21 Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter -
Chapter 22 Where have all the Bison Gone? -
Chapter 23 Attitudes -
Chapter 24 Conservation -
Chapter 25 A Great Plains Park - Bibliography
- Index