Vintage shots from days gone by!

The Titanic sitting along side her sister ship, the Olympic.

 

Here's the model he used.

 

Bison were hunted almost to extinction in the late 19th century primarily by market hunters
and were reduced to a few hundred by the mid-1880s.

They were hunted for their skins, with the rest of the animal left behind to decay on the
ground.

After the animals rotted, their bones were collected and shipped back east in large quantities.’








In the 1820's the Prairie provinces were thick with Buffalo.
-To stand in any one spot you could easily see 10,000 head (in a 20 sq mile area)

That was in a province that was 255,290 square miles or roughly the same size as the state of Texas.





By the 1830s the Comanche and their allies on the southern plains were killing about 280,000
bison a year, which was near the limit of sustainability for that region.

Firearms and horses, along with a growing export market for buffalo robes and bison meat had
resulted in larger and larger numbers of bison killed each year by the white and mixed Native
market hunters.

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-The railroad industry also wanted bison herds culled or eliminated.

Herds of bison on tracks could damage locomotives when the trains failed to stop in time.



Herds often took shelter in the artificial cuts formed by the grade of the track winding through
hills and mountains in harsh winter conditions.


As a result, bison herds could delay a train for days.










During the 1870's, there were over a thousand commercial hide/market hunting outfits
harvesting buffalo at any one time, vastly exceeding the take by American Indians or
individual meat hunters.

At times the commercial take was up to 100,000 animals per day (depending on the season).












Along came the professional market hunters, such as Buffalo Bill Cody, who easily felled a
hundred animals at a single morning stand.

'One professional market hunter killed over 20,000 buffalo by his own count while using several
rifles in order to allow the barrels of the guns to cool'.

-The market hunter would customarily locate the herd in the early morning, and station
himself about 100 yards from it shooting the animals broadside through the lungs.

Head shots were not preferred as bullets would often flatten and fail to penetrate the skull.

The bison would drop until either the herd sensed danger and stampeded or perhaps a
wounded animal attacked another causing the herd to disperse.

If done properly a large number of bison would be felled at one time.








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Below is a map of the extermination of the American Bison to 1889.
(Adapted from a drawing by Researcher William Temple (1902)


Light Brown = Original range (-tens of millions of head)
Medium Brown = the Range as of 1870
Dark Brown = Range as of 1889


Dark numbers indicate number of bison as of January 1st 1889 in remaining areas.
Light numbers give date of local extermination.































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From Louisiana State University Yearbook.

“One of the most favorite stories is the one of the day Stacie ” Stormy ” Laurence,
a New Orleans stripper, came on campus (March 4, 1948).

She arrived at noon and started her dance before the Huey P. Long Field House as students looked on…
















































‘By the time of her second dance, a crowd of 1,000 students had gathered and trouble occurred.

The students, enraged by her show, stormed the stripper throwing her into the lake, turned over her van and
destroyed all the band equipment as the band members fled.

 

"In event of Moon Disaster"

On 18th July 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following sombre memo to President Nixon&#8217;s Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman

Its contents: a contingency plan, in the form of a speech to be read out by Nixon should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon, never to return, followed by some brief instructions relating to its broadcast.

-Luckily for all those involved, the memo was never needed.

 

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