Where the Buffalo Roamed, a Strange and Morbid Economy
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(Corrects year of railway’s completion in first paragraphand number of buffalo in 14th paragraph.)
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The completion of the firsttranscontinental railway in 1869 divided the Great Plains intwo. Some of its earliest passengers were buffalo hunters, andas they spread out from the railroad’s embankments, the vastbuffalo herds were divided, as well.