#hide hunters

[prairie-tales]

'Hide Hunters'.

Mural by Texas artist Harold Dow Bugbee, 1956, which can be seen at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum’s in Canyon, Texas.

I am going to write an essay about bison hunting at some point, but for now will submit this brief explanation by Richard Grant from 2011:

The American bison is the largest mammal on the continent and a symbol of the American West. Herds migrate with the seasons and this is why the tribes that hunted them became nomadic. Now restricted to a few National Parks and a growing number of private ranches, at one time the accepted number of bison that roamed the West was 60 million. They were wiped out in less than 20 years by hide hunters, thereby depriving the Plains Indians of a livelihood*.

Numbers were reduced to less than 2,000 [other sources say fewer than that] and replaced by 50 million cattle. Some think this was a mistake as cattle are not nearly as well suited to the environment. Bison can give birth without the assistance of a vet, they have good immunity to the various endemic diseases, they can make it through the winter without supplemental feed and survive the storms with their big head and shaggy-furred shoulders. The animals evolved in this environment and therefore adapted to it over time. Cattle are not as hardy and do not always survive the winter. Bison are now growing in numbers again, mostly in farming, because their meat is low fat and tasty.

*As well as making money for the hide hunters and traders (there was an enthusiastic market for 'buffalo leather' in the east and Europe), the annihilation of the bison was also a deliberate tactic to deprive the Indians of their way of life and force them into the reservations.

[leillorien]

tres hunters….. tw*ttr liked this so i am posting it here 🗡️🪓🏹

[whisperwillyou]

They

Them

I can not express with words how important they are to me.

I’m so incredibly normal and chill about the simblings

Also, yellow and purple are complementary colors

✨💜💛✨

[wittebanged]

Belos getting a penstagram account is a funny concept I’ve been thinking abt idk

[spacedlexi]

leave them alone!!!! leave them alone!!

[ghl-osty]

the nocedas!

(they’re watching bluey)

[keferon]

If it's not too much to ask, what would Megatron's origin be then?

Ooohhhhehe I love this one.

Megatron is Dredge, a living stone statue or stone giant. Living in the far future. Not as far as Brainstorm, but in the future.

He gets a medical degree, suffers sleepless nights before an exam, and writes poetry. The regular mechs treat him with a little wariness, but no more than that. Overt oppression of monsters is long past, thanks to the efforts of Orion and many other mechs.

Megatron has never and will never meet Orion Pax, but he can see him if he looks at illustrations in historical articles.

[brighteyesredfire]

死印 - Death Mark: Manga (2019)

[here-comes-the-moose]

Crosshair: Hunter may I please have some more money?

Hunter: I just gave you your allowance! How did you already spend all of it???

Crosshair: *flashbacks to the insane amount of treats, clothes, and toys he bought Batcher, Omega, and Tech and Phee’s kids he bought on a shopping spree*

Crosshair: Inflation is crazy right now.

[mushroominaforest]

This is sort of how it went when Hunter first woke up in the colony, with no idea where he was or who these people were.

[prairie-tales]

Hide hunter standing on a mountain of bison skulls. I am going to write more about the near-extinction of the animal which once roamed the American plains in tens of millions.

[photogenicfirecracker]

Two new fighters have entered the ring!!

Anyway, some mhr ocs because I got so attached to my character that I had to give him life (and a bf)

[shuttershocky]

This Hermitaur tried to counter me so I countered his counter and then countered him again and then countered him AGAIN

[lastoneout]

Bloodborne is a nightmare to play if you're bisexual btw the characters say shit like "the sweet blood, oh, it sings to me" and "only an honest death will cure you now" and then you're not supposed to let them kill you like?????

[pac1fythehunger]

they told me the game has an old man in armor,,

[solifelessblog]

Mini comic for the occasion, Hunter wonders for their future and of course Darius assures him that there's nothing that they can't stop together… yes

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