Chapter 11: Creative Destruction, footnote 44, page 466 Ch11 fn. 44 p. 466 Tags: Discursive, Histories and Biographies At an average of 28 pounds per hide, this was 8,400,000 pounds or 4,200 tons. Hornaday, Extermination of the American Bison, 504, 508, 513. Taylor, "Buffalo Hunt," 41. Roe, North American Buffalo, 462 White, Freight Car, 196-98.