At 28 pounds per hide, they would have amounted to 24,500 tons of cargo. Given the 10-ton freight cars of the period, this would have yielded the 2,450 carloads.

Dodge, Plains of North America, 154-55.

Isenberg, Destruction of Bison, 132-39.

for freight car capacity, John H. White Jr., The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), 196-98.

for weight of hide, Taylor, "Buffalo Hunt," 41.

for AT&SF, Poor, Manual, 1872-73, 197.

Poor, Manual, 1874-75, 641.

for meat, Roe, North American Buffalo, 432.

for an attempt to calculate total kill, Roe, North American Buffalo, 436-46.