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The Batata la Coloreda and the Extinct Buffalo Trade
A fragmented historical note describes the buffalo as nearly extinct in parts of Montana and Dakota due to hunting, noting pricey heads and the animal’s color variation, then shifts to lilac culture in Paris and a long anecdote about an Ohio man drilling for oil, highlighting rural toil and a stark punchline about the drill’s end at the poorhouse door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
trobe-Republic
Ty Tembliv
Thas
Aiach
Fran Ek
Cimzex
Berice
Emda
Vanderbilt
St Lew Dorp
Staten Island
Hent
Europe
Hunt
America
New Dorp
Weil
William H
Houll
Lower Tay
New York
Sandy Hook
Coney
Montana
Ami Trakota
Sion
FS Tohm
Colorado
Arclight
Sreenhomne
Paris
Enorme
England
Belgium
Russia
la Nature
Ohio
Tia
Stuart
Brown
Ron
United States
Beret Brown
Wes
Wes Tals
Stuart Cate
Paeerl