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North American Bison Cooperative history
North American Bison Cooperative company history timeline
1700’s- 1800’s As Euro-Americans settled the country, moving westward from the east coast, they brought changes to native habitat through plowing and farming.
1816 April 2, The Evening Post 24 bales of buffalo skins for sale.
1818 Nov 17th 70 bales of Buffalo Robes for sale Bosler & Co.
1820s: Robe market begins (trade on the Northern Plains from 1820-80).
1822 May 31 The London Times, Beautiful Buffalo Cow and Calf for sale.
1826 The Evening Post Public Auction 9500 Buffalo Robes, The American Fur Co.
1828: Fort Union established at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers (North Dakota).
1830 Mass destruction of the once great herds of bison began.
1846 May 5th Milwaukee Daily Gazette 333 No 1& 2 Buffalo Robes for sale
1850 April 25th Milwaukee Daily Sentinel sale ads for Buffalo Robes Cattalo shipped from Wainwright Buffalo Park to Bain near Manyberries, Alberta, Ca.
1866 Charles Goodnight, captured a few bison calves and he had 6 in all and tried to start a captive herd on his Elk Creek Ranch, Throckmorton County, Texas.
1868 Things start ramping up, triple the ads and articles reported in newspapers.
1870’s It became obvious that owning bison was profitable.
In 1870-71 two young brothers, Bill Alloway and Charlie Alloway came to Winnipeg as privates in the Wolseley expedition from Hamilton, Ontario where their father was a Queen’s Own Rifles captain.
1872 Columbus Delano said in his annual report, “The rapid disappearance of game from the former hunting-grounds must operate largely in favor of our efforts to confine the Indians to smaller areas, and compel them to abandon their nomadic customs.”
1872 or 3 With the aid of his wife Sabine, Walking Coyote, a Pend Oreille Indian, acquired some bison calves, bringing them into the Flathead Valley with the intent of starting a bison herd.
Charlie, who took over the amateur veterinary practice Bill began and added a trading post, saw the handwriting in 1873 after buying 21,000 buffalo hides at $3-$4 each from a single brigade.
1874 Terms like “roamed” “once” being used for the bison population.
1875 The term “bison” is being used more than “buffalo.”
1877 A few remaining free roaming bison were discovered in Texas and were killed.
General Hugh Scott remembered that soldiers had no trouble keeping a six-mule team wagon carrying fresh buffalo meat into Fort Meade “all the time,” early in 1883.
1883 in the United States, the number of hides shipped, fell to a mere 25,000, a single car load shipped from Dickinson, Dakota Territory, by J.N. Davis
1885 C.J. Jones purchased a few bison from Charles Goodnight, along with capturing 13 bison from southern Texas, starting his own private herd.
1888 Austin Corbin established a herd of bison on New Hampshire’s Blue Mountain Game Preserve.
1892, Recorded: First time a Cutting Horse is used to work bison. (“Buffalo” Jones)
1896 The Pablo/Allard herd in the Flathead Valley totaled about 300.
In 1901, Congress placed 61,500 acres within the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation under control of the Department of the Interior establishing the Wichita Forest Reserve.
1904: Ernest Harold Baynes moves into a house on Corbin’s game reserve in New Hampshire with captive bison herd.
So he caught a few young ones, which were the beginning of the herd, he is now (1906) willing to place in a national preserve.
Rush received the first shipment of 15 bison on October 9, 1907 from the Bronx Zoo.
1908, A considerable number of bison was purchased by the Canadian Government, but the buffalo census shows an actual increase of about 200.
1910 The American Bison Society Census estimated 2,108 bison in North America (1,076 in Canada and 1,032 in the United States). Bison in public herds in the United States totaled 151.
1913: Six bison introduced to Niobrara reserve, Nebraska.
1919 Estimated population of North American bison at 12,521, and 489 calves born.
1924 The National Bison Range donates 218 bison from a herd total of 675 to other public herds.
Bronx Zoo Press release, January 25, 1935, regarding meeting of January 24, 1935.
1943: Buffalo meat, now offered “fill in” for wartime shortage.
1990’s An estimated 20,000-25,000 bison were in public herds in North America.
2000 April, the Buffalo Horn Ranch in Alberta has a set of triplets, first recorded in Canada.
2005: Wildlife Conservation Society re-establishes American Bison Society.
The Chitina River herd at last count, in 2009, was 41 animals and the herd is slowly increasing.
2011 Bison Meat Sales Top $278 Million
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