Q: Why were the cows successful, while the buffalo struggled?
Ans: Buffalo, as they were in 1870, are glimpsed as an obstacle to be overcome. Unlike the dairy cow, the buffalo is not "civilized." He consumes lawn, after all! Nor manage Buffalo esteem the barbed cable barrier or reply well to domestication. There is no room for such a animal in the white man's outlook of the world. Sentiments like one overhead and the one to pursue, voiced by the buffalo hunter Frank Meyer, articulate the factual motivations behind the slaughter while under natural situation the ...