the US Army actively encouraged the wholesale slaughter of bison herds. In 1875, Philip Sheridan, a general in the US Army, applauded the impact bison hunters could have on the beef industry.
A fetus was removed from an infected bison that had been euthanized and necropsied at a Bozeman lab. Photograph by David Guttenfelder Whittlesey refers to the massive slaughter of wildlife ...