USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Their story is inextricably tied to the history of America’s first transcontinental railroad. Hundreds of thousands of bison were slaughtered by hunters, travelers and U.S. troops. Trains shipped bison carcasses back east for machine belts, tongues as a delicacy, and bones as fertilizer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The decline of the buffalo is largely a nineteenth-century story. The size of the herds was affected by predation (by humans and wolves), disease, fires, climate, competition from horses, the market, and other factors. Fires often swept the grasslands, sometimes maiming and killing buffaloes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Then the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad accelerated the decimation of the species. Massive hunting parties began to arrive in the West by train, with thousands of men packing . 50 caliber rifles, and leaving a trail of buffalo carnage in their wake.

Detailed explanation-4: -They contributed to economic dislocation and depression, encouraged corruption, and destroyed local economies and communities. The builders were inept and built shoddy products. There was abuse of labor and destruction of the labor movement.