The Buffalo Bone Industry As Described by Robert Wright (Recollections)

After the destruction of the great southern buffalo herd, one resource from the buffalo remained-their bones. Dodge City, once a buffalo hunting town, became a point for shipping buffalo bones to the east. Anybody with a horse and wagon could gather the buffalo bones and sell them. Learn in this video about the buffalo bone trade in Dodge City, and what happened to all those bleached bones left over from the buffalo hunters.

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