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Buffalo Bill Cody and the Wests Buffalo Hunting Era
A Denver dispatch recalls Buffalo Bill Cody and the buffalo hunting era. It details Cody's 69 kills in one day after a 1868 race with Sam Comstock, chronicles the rise of hide hunters, and cites vast slaughter that nearly wiped out the buffalo from 1850 to 1884, highlighting railroads and markets that fueled the extinction.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Denver
Colo
Cooke Rhea
Rhea
Union Pacific
William Frederick Cody
Buffalo Bill
Kansas Pacific
Kansas
Goddard Brothers
Wild Bill” Hickok
Bill Cody
Cody
Fort Wallace
Billy Comstock
Comstock
Sheridan
Kan
Old Brigham
Lucretia Borgia
Plains
Sharps
Wyatt Earp
Dodge City
Tombstone
Aziz
Tom Nixon
Dodge
Billy Tilghman
EB. A. Brininstool
Red Cloud
Manitoba
Texas
Union Pacific Railroad
Samme
Richard Irving Dodge
Arkansas River
Walnut Creek
Pawnee Fork
Phil Sheridan
Major Inman
Robert M. Wright
Camp Supply
Wright
Buffalo
Robert Wright
Charles Rath
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Santa Fe
Ford County
Northern Pacific Railroad
Western Newspaper Union