For American wildlife ... In many ways, the same market forces that pushed buffalo and numerous other species to the brink of extinction in the late nineteenth century started with the tragic ...

As a result, the buffalo was hunted for sport by the white professional hunters and sportsmen. In contrast, the American Indian of the West had developed a cultural importance on the buffalo as ...

Though bison are sometimes colloquially called buffalo ... Bialowieża Primeval Forest. As with American bison, European bison were hunted to near extinction before the 20th century.

Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson (in 1994 ... Bison hides had grown scarce as herds were hunted nearly to extinction in a campaign to subdue the Plains tribes during the late 1800s.