This photograph depicts a buffalo hunt along the Big Timber River, located in Ellis County south of Hays, Kansas. Some more well-known members of the hunting party include General George Armstrong Custer, Hill P. Wilson, Captain Tom Custer, and General Samuel D. Sturgis. In the years that followed this hunt, the Bison heards that roamed the U.S. were decimated. The death of so many Bison helped bring an end to the nomadic lifestyle of many Native American tribes in the U.S.