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Last of the buffalo hunters remembered in epic tale
The piece profiles Cooke Rhea, an 88 year old buffalo hunter tied to Union Pacific, and recounts the era's slaughter led by Gray and other hide hunters. It covers Buffalo Bill Cody, Comstock matches, and Wyatt Earp quotes, tracing buffalo decline from 50 million to near extinction era and railroad-driven hunting, with figures on kills and shipments across Dodge City and Dodge-area posts.
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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
Henry
Plains
Wyatt Earp
Dodge City
Tombstone
Ariz
Tom Nixon
Dodge
Billy Tilghman
E. A. Brininstgol
Red Cloud
Manitoba
Texas
Union Pacific Railroad
Richard Irving Dodge
Arkansas River
Walnut Creek
Pawnee Fork
Phil Sheridan
Major Inman
Robert M. Wright
Camp Supply
Wright
General Sheridan
Western
Robert Wright
Charles Rath
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Santa Fe
Ford County
Wan
Northern ‘Pacific