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This ink on paper drawing by Martin Garretson depicts the artist's conception of the changes in western Kansas as the open prairie was claimed for family farms. By 1883, the vast buffalo herds of the central plains had been hunted almost to the point of extinction. In the drawing, one man is shown loading bleached buffalo bones into an oxen-drawn wagon, while another man with a horse-drawn plow has begun plowing the cleared prairie for a farm crop. A young girl and boy are shown with piles of horns and horned skulls, and a woman is shown standing in the doorway of a small farmhouse in the background.
Creator: Garretson, M.S.
Date: Between 1913 and 194
This demonstrates to students how, by the 1880s, there were few live buffalo because so many had been killed off. It gives the end of the story about the depletion of buffalo, working with documents and photographs that discuss buffalo hunting.
KS:7th:3.1:Federal Government and Indian Lands (2005)
Item Number: 210668
Call Number: QL.5 BU *7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 210668
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices - Plowing
Agriculture - Family farming
Agriculture - Implements and machinery - Plows
Agriculture - Implements and machinery - Wagons
Agriculture - Livestock - Oxen
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Fed. Gov. and Indian lands (Indicator 1) - Depletion of buffalo and natural resources
Date - 1880s - 1883
Date - 1910s
Environment - Wildlife - Mammals - Buffalo/Bison
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Home and Family - Residences - Exteriors
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Drawing
People - Children
Places - Regions - Western Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Art objects - Original art - Drawings
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