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Buffalo Tales: The Near-Extermination of the American Bison Shepard Krech III, Brown University ©National Humanities Center Illustration Credits
Description	Repository/ID Information
Bison, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, no date	National Park Service
George Catlin, Buffalo Chase over Prairie Bluffs, 1844, from George Catlin, North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. London, 1844	Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
George Catlin, Buffalo Chase, 1845, from George Catlin, North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. New York, 1845	Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Dead buffalo, ca. 1873. Records of the Smithsonian Institution--Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, Northern Pacific Railroad Survey	National Archives   NWDNS-106-yx-69
American bison (panorama), 1906. Printed below image: "Christian T. Pelck, Prop." Pelck's Scenic & Art Studio, copyright deposit: May 1, 1906	Library of Congress. PAN SUBJECT - Misc., no 5 (E size) [P&P]
Arapaho camp with buffalo meat drying near Fort Dodge, Kansas, 1870	National Archives   NWDNS-75-BAE-48c
Buffalo hide, painted and worked with quills, Piegan Indians, between 1900 and 1920?; in collection of Volkerkunde Museum, Berlin	Denver Public Library, Western History Collection. X-31113
Buffalo hide, painted, Ute Indians, between 1888 and 1910?; in collection of Volkerkunde Museum, Berlin	Denver Public Library, Western History Collection. X-30366
George Catlin, Catlin and His Indian Guide Approaching Buffalo under White Wolf Skins, 1846-1848	Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Alfred Jacob Miller, Driving Herds of Buffalo over a Precipice, n.d.	Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Sioux buffalo dancers, four sketches in Bertha L. Heilbron, ed., With Pen and Pencil on the [Minnesota] Frontier in 1851: The Diary and Sketches of Frank Blackwell Mayer. St. Paul: The Minnesota Historical Society, 1932, ch. 11, pp. 197-198.	Library of Congress: American Memory collections
Buffalo at Wind Cave National Park, Hot Springs, South Dakota, ca. 1936	National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection: hpc-000678 Photographer: George A. Grant
George Catlin, After the Buffalo Chase - Sioux, 1861/1869	National Gallery of Art, Paul Mellon Collection: 1965.16.11
George Catlin, Buffalo Dance - Mandan, 1861	National Gallery of Art, Paul Mellon Collection: 1965.16..82
Carl Wimar, Buffaloes Approaching Water Hole, 1860	The Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri. All rights reserved.
George Catlin, Prairie Meadows Burning, 1861/1869	National Gallery of Art, Paul Mellon Collection: 1965:16.194
"Trail of the hide hunters," buffalo lying dead in snow, 1872	National Archives   NWDNS-79-M-1B-4
Rath & Wright's buffalo hide yard in 1878, showing 40,000 buffalo hides, Dodge City, Kansas	National Archives   NWDNS-79-M-1B-3
Buffalo bones, 1870	National Archives   NWDNS-57-HS-895 U.S. Geological Survey: Hayden Survey Photographer: William Henry Jackson
Buffalo herd, n.d., location unknown	Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences CalPhotos Database, University of California Digital Library
John Mix Stanley, Herd of Bison near Lake Jesse [North Dakota], 1853-1855	State Historical Society of North Dakota and website Discovering Lewis and Clark
Bison herd, Hayden Valley, Yosemite National Park, Wyoming, no date in record	National Park Service
Ute child sits on a buffalo hide next to an infant in a cradleboard; corn hangs on a line behind them. Uinta Valley, on the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains, Utah; between 1871 and 1875. Titled "Babe in cradle" as stereographic print. Photographer: John K. Hillers.	Denver Public Library Western History Collection / Library of Congress
Cochiti men and women dance in a circle in Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. They are dressed in ceremonial costume, elements of which include buffalo headdresses, decorative dresses, moccasins, bustles, and feather ornamentation; between 1890 and 1920.	Denver Public Library Western History Collection / Library of Congress
Gall, Dakota chief, three-fourths length standing studio portrait with painted backdrop; one feather in hair, braids wrapped in fur, decorated buffalo hide wrapped around shoulder and torso, holding feather fan-like object, 1881?	Denver Public Library, Western History Collection
"The Closing Era," bronze statue on the grounds of the Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado, between 1893 and 1910? Statue sculpted by John Preston Powers for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago; poet John Greenleaf Whittier named the piece. After the exposition, the statue was brought to Denver and displayed as public art.	Denver Public Library Western History Collection / Library of Congress
Bison cow and calf, no location, no date	Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences. CalPhotos Database, University of California Digital Library.

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