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Fast
Facts
- Estimated number of bison on Great Plains in
1802:25 million- 70 million
- Number of wild bison in 1902:23
- Number of bison killed by "Buffalo Bill" Cody
in 1867-68:4,280
- Total number of bison killed for their hides
in 1870 alone:2 million
- Price paid to hunters for a bull bison hide
at trading post that year:$2
- Price of an Indian- tanned hide in New York:$16.50
- Retail price of a tanned hide today:$880
- Number of bison in North America today:350,000
- Estimated number of black-footed ferrets in
1885:5.6 million
- Estimated number today:700
- Number of U.S. soldiers killed during Battle
of Little Bighorn:263
- Approximate number of Indians killed at Little
Bighorn:100
- Number of Lakota camped at Wounded Knee Creek
on Dec. 29, 1890:350
- Number of women and children:230
- Official death toll among Lakota during altercation
that day with U.S. Army:153
- Number of women and children among them:63
Sources:
North American Bison Cooperative, Smithsonian Institution, "The
Buffalo Hunters" by Mari Sandoz, "The Day of the Buffalo" by
Dee Brown, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown, National Park Service.
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