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a bison skull pile, ca 1870.
a bison skull pile, ca 1870.
Credit: Great Plains Restoration Council
A pile of bison skulls (circa 1870).

The North American bison were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to very small numbers by the mid-1880s.