In the Death of an Endless Resource, the great buffalo slaughter is on, and in 1873 the herds became harder to find.  In the southern prairies, the buffalo completely vanished. To prosper in buffalo hides, the buffalo hunters sent two men to Fort Dodge, Kansas. The hunters asked the commander of Fort Dodge what the penalty was if the skinners crossed into the Texas Panhandle and onto reservation land. The Medicine Lodge Treaty said no white settlers could hunt there, but that’s where the surviving buffalo had gathered. Lieutenant Colonel Richard Dodge met with the two men, and one remembered the colonel say, “Boys, if I were a buffalo hunter, I would hunt buffalo where buffalo are.” Then the colonel wished them good luck. To learn more about the Great Buffalo Slaughter of 1873 purchase Buffalo Days. 

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