About four miles to the west and south we found an ideal hunters' camp: plenty of fresh water, good grass, and wood in abundance. Here we made headquarters...We were in a veritable hunter's paradise... We must have these 3361 hides that this region is to furnish us inside of three months, within a radius of eight miles from this main camp. So at it we went An Hart...started out, and in two hours had killed sixty-three bison. -Buffalo hunter, quoted in the Border and the Buffalo The actions described above contributed most directly to... the increase of the longhorn cattle population and large scale ranching

the elimination of cattle trails as a means to transport goods

the invention of the Colt Six shooter for protection from buffalo herds

the end of the traditional way of life for Native americans​