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From kings of the American plains to piles of sun-bleached bones: How mass slaughter by hunters nearly wiped out the buffalo | Daily Mail Online
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From kings of the American plains to piles of sun-bleached bones: How mass slaughter by hunters nearly wiped out the buffalo | Daily Mail Online
![Buffalo bones gathered from the Prairie for shipment, at Gull Lake, N.W.T. - City of Vancouver Archives Buffalo bones gathered from the Prairie for shipment, at Gull Lake, N.W.T. - City of Vancouver Archives](https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/8/7/879535/3a0ff41e-225d-4b01-964a-86c3979e897c-A08092.jpg)
Buffalo bones gathered from the Prairie for shipment, at Gull Lake, N.W.T. - City of Vancouver Archives
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From kings of the American plains to piles of sun-bleached bones: How mass slaughter by hunters nearly wiped out the buffalo | Daily Mail Online
![Terrill Tailfeathers on Twitter: "'Piles of buffalo skulls at the railroad siding, Saskatoon' SK Date: Aug. 9, 1890 Photographer: Hugh Lumsden, CE Source: Legislative Library Probably the largest accumulation of buffalo bones Terrill Tailfeathers on Twitter: "'Piles of buffalo skulls at the railroad siding, Saskatoon' SK Date: Aug. 9, 1890 Photographer: Hugh Lumsden, CE Source: Legislative Library Probably the largest accumulation of buffalo bones](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwv7M9TV4AAZIhd.jpg)