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Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.

Source: http://www.gprc.org/tour/tour3.html ; http://www.gprc.org/Graphics/Bisonpile_lg.jpg ; http://www.gprc.org/images/bison_skull_pile.html English Wikipedia, original upload 28 February 2005 by Brian0918


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05:29, 16 September 2005576×461 (204 KB)Saperaud (Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Source: http://www.gprc.org/tour/tour3.html ; http://www.gprc.org/Graphics/Bisonpile_lg.jpg ; English Wikipedia, original upload 28 February 2005)