[PeteB570]

Ahhh, the noble red man on his horse crossing the plains covered in thick praire grass.

Too bad that didn't happen until the Spanish brought the hourse over with them in the 1500s.

[TigersEye]

Imagine how many buffalo there were before they had horses to hunt them!? The air must have been blue with Prairie Perfume.

[Army Air Corps]

That, and archaeologists and historians point-out that Indians did not "take only what they needed". Paleo-indians often killed scores more bison than they needed due to their hunting practices. Also, Indians helped in the near extinction of the buffalo in the late 19th century. Photographs and documents from the period indicate that Indians hunted buffalo for their pelts so that they could use them as trade goods. Often, the carcasses were stripped of the hides and the meat was left on the carcasses.