Beyond the technology, the United States government also encouraged the slaughter of the buffalo as a strategy to conquer the American plains Indians ... take part in the hunt.

But just how accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West ... the Deadwood coach had once been attacked by Indians. As for the Native American performers, some of them had even participated in ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived largely nomadic lives, hunting the vast buffalo herds across the land. By the mid-1800s, times ...