Why and how were the buffalo hunted almost to extinction by White Americans?

1. William Cody was employed to deal with the sudden herds of buffalo. William would clear the path of the railroads and feed the hungry workers with the leftover buffalo meat.

2. William Cody claimed to have killed over 4280 buffalo in roughly 17 months.

3. Neither the government nor the army stopped people from killing buffalo, they actually seemed to be enjoying it as it meant the plains Indians were having their way of life ruined and the government and the army didn't even need to get involved

4. Tourists even traveled onto the plains and hunted the buffalo as a sport, as well as the tourists hunting them there were also people hunting them for wealth

5. The Indians were banned from leaving their territory to hunt, white Americans were forcing the Indians to live like them.

6. Theodore Roosevelt became president of a society dedicated to protecting the remaining buffalo in America

7. White Americans started to expand across the whole of America with the introduction to new railroads, transcontinental railroads to be precise. The railroads were going straight through buffalo herds.

8. The destruction of the buffalo meant that Americans could also get rid of the plains Indians far quicker.

9. People managed to end up earning lots of money out of killing buffalo, they found that their hide made good quality leather and they sold accessories for high prices.

10. The grasslands that Buffalo herds were eating on ended up being destroyed by White american settlements, the buffalo also ended up catching diseases from cattle and diseases spread through herds and wiped out entire groups of buffalo.

11. Destroying buffalo meant less indians would protest about losing their nomadic lifestyle, making it easier to control them.

12. Orlando A. Brown killed over 5,885 buffalo (that's 97 buffalo a day) this caused him to deaf in one ear through the constant rate of fire.