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European demand blamed for near extinction of buffalo

01/08/2007

A new paper written by Dr M. Scott Taylor from the National Bureau of Economic Research at the University of Calgary has revealed that the wide-scale slaughter of bison from the American plains during the 19th century was initiated by a tanning innovation created in Europe.

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