of this land; a skilled hunter by stern necessity. He was a true market hunter;

he made a business of pursuing game, living upon what nature made most

abundant. His concerns were outcomes, as he had to feed his family. So, for a

Paiute, in the Great Basin, hunting and fishing was the business of his life

and waterfowl was considered an esteemed food source gathering it with all the

regularity of a corn crop.If market hunting were, as it has

been portrayed, simply done by the white man, this story could never have been

written. Perhaps we can simply state that Native Americans market hunted, but

no one wrote about it. Nevertheless, we come to the last of the Native American market hunters that were centered

around the Humboldt and Carson Sinks of Nevada. The two vast sinks of the

Humboldt and Carson River drainage systems, the marshy remnants of the Ice Age

Lake Lahontan with neither having a natural outlet, served as life-sustaining

resources for food and materials for prehistoric man and the later Native

Americans.