Texas Panhandle Wiped Clean of Buffalo

Published by News Staff on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 10:13am

By BARTEE HAILE

With no more buffalo left to slaughter, the last of the High Plains hunters, as shaggy as the beasts they once stalked, departed

the Panhandle on Jul. 23, 1879. The wild rush of gold-seekers to California in 1849 split in half the multitude of North American bison. The coming

of the transcontinental railroad a couple of decades later made permanent the division of the mighty millions into the northern

and southern herds.

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