• Estimated numbers in 1830  =   70 - 150 million
• Many of today's highways follow roadways trampled out by migrating buffalo herds.
• In 1902 our federal government started a restoration project in Yellowstone and discontinued the hunting of buffalo.

• Named les boeufs meaning oxen or beefs, by the French.   American Frontiersman translated it to buffalo.
• After 1830 the beaver were trapped out, the buffalo robes became more popular
• 1870-1875 estimated 2,500,000 were taken annually for use by the American fur companies

• Meat To Eat
• Dung For Fires
• Brains For Tanning Hides
• Gallstones For Yellow Paint
• Hooves Boiled To Make Glue

• Horns For Cups And Spoons
• Small Bones For Knives And Tools
• Sinew For Bowstrings And Sewing Thread
• Tails For Shooing Flies

Untanned Hide (Rawhide)
  Because it shrinks when dried it was used to fasten stonehead to mallets and secure war clubs to their handles.

Fur/Hide Uses

Uses for Hides Taken In The Late Fall

It had long winter hair which was used for mittens, warm bedding, moccasins, winter caps, and ceremonial headdresses.