125 - The Mountain of Bones

Let me know what you thought of this podcast! Send a text. When you think of treasure in the Old Western times of Texas, you might think of oil, cattle, land. But for a few crucial years in the early 1880s, the most valuable thing lying around the Texas plains was the skeleton of a dead buffalo. In this episode we discover what happened to the remains of millions of buffalo that were brought to the bring of extinction. Source: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bone-busi...