Excerpt from King of the Thundering Herd: The Biography of an American Bison For twelve years, beginning in 1871, when the Union Pacific Railroad cut the herd in sunder and sounded its death-knell, the war went on. Millions of hides were Obtained each year, while as many more rotted on the plains without being taken from their wearers. No such colossal tragedy in the animal kingdom was ever known upon a single continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.