buffalo hunter
Plains game pursuer
A buffalo hunter is someone who hunts buffalo, particularly the American bison.
The term most often refers to the commercial hunters of the 19th-century American West who slaughtered bison for hides, meat, and sport—contributing to the near-extinction of herds that once numbered in the tens of millions.
Buffalo hunters decimated the Plains herds within two decades.
- bisonLarge wild ox
- plainsBroad, level grasslands
- rifleLong-barreled shoulder weapon
- frontierEdge of settlement
- hideConceal or pelt
skinning · prairie · stampede · open range · herd · sharpshooter · Wild West · Comanche · bone · tallow · slaughter · scout · wagon · wagon train · Winchester · Great Plains · extinction · Remington
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- Huntersbowhunter, nimrod, archer, fowler, falconer
- Frontiersmenmountain man, frontiersman, backwoodsman, trapper, fur trapper
- fur tradersfur trader, trapper, voyageur, mountain man, pelter
buffalo hunterwildlife ranger
Conservation law enforcer
conservationist · game warden · park ranger · wildlife rehabilitator
buffalo hunterconservationist
Protector of natural resources
preservationist · naturalist · park ranger · wildlife biologist · environmentalist
buffalo huntercattle rancher
One who raises bovines
shepherd · trapper · fur trader · farmer
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