Bruce In Bangkok wrote:

I've read accounts of the buffalo herds "covering the ground as far as
you could see". Just as the Grand Banks cod fish, no one ever believed
that man could kill 'em all. ....
Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Oh, there were more buffalo, far more buffalo than would cover one horizon.
Try this: buffalo moving, as far as the eye could see in any direction,
moving day and night, for three days, from eye-witness accounts; seen
right here where I live in this little town on the southern edge of the
prairie. But that was then. The local buffalo herd (Wichita Mountains
State Park) has perhaps a hundred....
Twenty miles from here, on the North Fork of the Red River, was the
site of the first government meeting and treaty-making with the Plains
Indians. That treaty was short lived..... Signed at Devil's Canyon.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK