On 6/9/21 5:03 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote:
GW's sources are trade press and from only the settlers's POV to start
with and among other errors, this stuck me early in the essay:
" Before the horse, bison hunting was essentially a “hit or miss”
proposition. Occasionally a herd could be led over a cliff killing
hundreds of animals. Still, the right circumstances, including an
available cliff site and a nearby herd that one could stampede over
it, were relatively rare. Hunters could sometimes kill large numbers
of bison mired in deep snow by approaching on snowshoes, but again the
circumstances were relatively rare. All of these were like winning the
lottery; as anyone buying a lottery ticket today knows, most never
result in a win."
I answered the same kind of bullshit in 1998.
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/indian/bison.htm
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