On This Day | Scattered Across the Plains
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Twenty years ago 130 tons of buffalo bones were shipped from North Dakota to be ground up and used for fertilizers. Then the prairies were dotted with the whitened skulls of these monarchs of the plains and many a settler got his winter’s fuel by collecting buffalo bones and selling them at as high as eight dollars a ton.
— October 21, 1903 | The Ward County Independent
Why We Chose It
This story — the near total decimation of the bison heard — belongs fully to our area’s first European settlers. It seems unlikely to be our proudest moment. It’s a reminder that man’s ambition and the incentives of our market-economies are more than capable of radically altering an environment on even a continental scale. And if we could do that 150 years ago, imagine what we could do to the whole planet today.
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