"WHITE BUFFALO"
BY THE ARTIST
LORENZO J. BEARD (1914 - )
PAINTING IS DATED 1999
PAWNEE (SKIIDI BAND) & CHEYENNE ARAPAHO
LISTED ARTIST
MUSEUM REFERNCES IN NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART, SANTE FE
AND FRED JONES MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
A ROMANTIC RENDITION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN BISON.
LEGEND OF STORY AND SONG OF THE VICTORIAN WESTERN COWBOY.
THE GREAT BEAST IS POISED IN WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CIRCLE OF LIFE,
SEE HIS STATURE AS HE TRUDGES THROUGH THE TALL GRASS COVERED FIELDS.
THE BULL IS LOOKING AHEAD INTO THE DISTANCE AS HE WALKS HIS TERRESTRIAL PATH.
THE ONE OF A KIND / OOAK
ARTISANS ORIGINAL / AO
OOC / OIL ON CANVAS
WORK MEASURES 19" WIDE BY 24" HIGH.
THE FRAME MEASURES 21" BY 26"
STUNNING DECOR FOR YOUR RUSTIC CABIN OR COUNTRY RANCH HOME. ACCENT YOUR WESTERN AMBIENCE WITH THIS FINE WORK IN THE DEN OR STUDY. IT WILL STIR PLENTY OF CONVERSATION & ATTENTION.
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FYI
The American Bison (Bison bison), is a bovine mammal that is the largest terrestrial mammal in North America. The bison inhabited the Great Plains of the United States and Canada in massive herds, ranging from the Great Slave Lake in Canada's far north to Mexico in the south, and from eastern Oregon almost to the Atlantic Ocean, taking its subspecies into account. Its two subspecies are the Plains Bison (Bison bison bison), distinguished by its flat back, and the Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae), distinguished by its large humped back.
The Bison is also commonly known as the American Buffalo, although it is only distantly related to either the Water Buffalo or African Buffalo.
Bison were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to a few hundred individuals by the mid-1880s, from which all the present day's managed herds are descended. One major cause was that hunters were paid by large railroad concerns to destroy entire herds, for several reasons:
The herds formed the basis of the economies of local Plains tribes of Native Americans; without bison, the tribes would leave.
Herds of these large animals on tracks could damage locomotives when the trains failed to stop in time.
Herds often took shelter in the artificial cuts formed by the grade of the track winding though hills and mountains in harsh winter conditions. This could hold up a train for days.
Besides this, bison skins were valuable for industrial machine belts, clothing such as robes, and rugs. There was a huge export trade to Europe of bison hides. Old West bison hunting was very often a big commercial enterprise, involving organized teams of one or two professional hunters, backed by a team of skinners, gun cleaners, cartridge reloaders, cooks, wranglers, blacksmiths, security guards, teamsters, and large numbers of horse and wagons. Men were even employed to recover and re-cast lead bullets taken from the carcasses. Many of these professional hunters such as Buffalo Bill Cody killed over a hundred animals at a single stand and many thousands in their career. One professional hunter killed over 20,000 by his own count. A good hide could bring $3.00 in Dodge City, and a very good one (the heavy winter coat) $50.00 in an era when a laborer would be lucky to make a dollar a day.
For a decade from 1873 on there were several hundred, perhaps over a thousand, such commercial hunting outfits harvesting bison at any one time, vastly exceeding the take by American Indians or indivdual meat hunters. It was said that the Big .50s were fired so much that hunters needed at least two rifles to let the barrels cool off, and they were sometimes quenched in the winter snow.
As the great herds began to wane, proposals to protect the bison came up. Cody, among others, spoke in favor of protecting the bison as he saw that the pressure on the species was too great. But these were discouraged, as it was recognized that the Plains Indians, often at war with the United States, depended on bison for their way of life. General Phillip Sheridan spoke to the Texas Legislature against a proposal to outlaw commercial bison hunting for that reason, and President Grant also "pocket vetoed" a similar Federal bill to protect the dwindling bison herds. By 1884 the American Bison was close to extinction.
The destruction of the bison was resisted by many of the Plains Indians, but not with success. The Indians did not participate in commercial hunting of the bison.
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