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Last of the Buffalo Hunters recalls epic but brutal slaughter
A Denver dispatch memorializes Cooke Rhea and the era of buffalo hunters who supplied meat to Westward construction crews. It recounts William Frederick Cody, Buffalo Bill, and the legendary horseman contests, then details the rampant, ruthless slaughter of the plains herds from 1850 to 1884, the vast decline, and the final die out as railroads enabled mass hide hunts.
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Denver
Colo
Cooke Rhea
Rhea
Union Pacific
William Frederick Cody
Kansas Pacific
Kansas
Goddard Brothers
Wild Bill” Hickok
Young Bill Cody
Cody
Fort Wallace
Billy Comstock
Comstock
Sheridan
Kan
Old Brigham
Lucretia Borgia
Plains
Sharps
Wyatt Earp
Dodge City
Tombstone
Ariz
Tom Nixon
Dodge
Billy Tilghman
E. A. Brininstool
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
Buffalo
Western
Robert Wright
Charles Rath
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Santa Fe
Ford County
Northern Pacific Railroad
Western Newspaper Union