Richard White, "Animals and Enterprise," in Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, and Martha A. Sandweiss, eds., The Oxford History of the American West, (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994), 237.
Richard Irving Dodge, The Plains of North America and Their Inhabitants, ed. Wayne R. Kime (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press 1989), 153, 156.
Roe, North American Buffalo, 442.
Roe, North American Buffalo.
Isenberg, Destruction of Bison, 136-37.
Dodge, Plains of North America, 153-56.
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.