I might be wrong about this, but I think the buffalo were killed to make railroads possible, not to starve the Native Americans.
--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
The same kind of
> yahoos who
> rode the railroad out here and kill bufflo by the millions
> in order to
> immiserate the Native American tribes who depended on open
> ranges and
> natural herds.