#buffalo

People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70 million buffalo on the plains and then the people of the West started blasting away at them. Buffalo are just cows with big heads. If you've ever looked a cow in the face and seen the unutterable depths of trust and stupidity that lie within, you will be able to guess how difficult it must have been for people in the West to track down buffalo and shoot them to pieces. By 1895, there were only 800 buffalo left, mostly in zoos and touring Wild West shows. With no buffalo left to kill, Westerners started shooting Indians. Between 1850 and 1890 they reduced the number of Indians in America from two million to 90,000. Nowadays, thank goodness, both have made a recovery. Today there are 30,000 buffalo and 300,000 Indiands, and of course you are not allowed to shoot either, so all the Westerners have left to shoot at are road signs and each other, both of which they do rather a lot. There you have a capsule history of the West. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#buffalo #indians #the-west #wild-west #recovery

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#blow #buffalo #clean #gibson #great

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. ↗

— John H. Speke

#buffalo #dark #dark places #delighting #especially

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#also #assured #buffalo #country #forever

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#buffalo #hollies #i #influences #musical

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#buffalo #day #deliver #even #i

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#almost #although #any #buffaloes #dry

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#buffalo #stupid #surprisingly

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#before #bill #book #buffalo #enough