What did Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill) do with buffaloes? Detailed answer

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What did Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill) do with buffaloes?

Nothing. There are no buffaloes in North America. But Buffalo Bill did kill a lot of buffalo, 4280, in less than eighteen months.

The word buffalo ("buffalo") is often used in the wrong sense, referring to the bison. The North American steppe bison (Bison bison) is not related to any of the real buffaloes - neither water (Bubalus), nor African (Synceros). Their last common ancestor died out six million years ago.

The world population of bison was reduced from 60 million in the 50th century to just a few hundred by the end of the XNUMXth. Today, about XNUMX bison graze in the wild. For meat, a specially bred hybrid of bison and cattle is used - the so-called cattalo ("catalo") or beefalo ("cow bison"). His father is a bull, his mother is a buffalo. The offspring of a male bison and a domestic cow turn out to be overly broad-shouldered, which greatly complicates childbirth.

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, famed tracker, hunter, Indian exterminator and showman, joined the Pony Express, the legendary Old West postal service, at the age of fourteen, following an ad:

"WANTED young, wiry lads no older than eighteen. Mandatory - the ability to stay in the saddle and the willingness to risk their lives daily. Orphans preferred. Salary $ 25 a week."

The Pony Express service lasted only nineteen months - it was supplanted by the "iron horse". In 1867, Cody took a job hunting buffalo to feed construction workers for the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company, and it was there, at the Kansas Pacific, that Buffalo Bill scored his unbeaten record.

In 1883, Cody decides to go into show business. His show "Wild West" lasted until 1916 and all this time enjoyed terrible popularity; his tour of Europe was attended by Queen Victoria herself. And at the funeral of Buffalo Bill in 1917, the King of England, the Kaiser of Germany and US President Woodrow Wilson arrived (despite the war).

And although the famous hunter clearly indicated in his will that he be buried in Wyoming, near the city of Cody (which he himself founded), Buffalo Bill's widow stated that on his deathbed her husband converted to Catholicism and asked to bury his body on Lookout Mountain. ting, near Denver.

In 1948, the Codian chapter of the American Legion posted a $10 reward for the "return" of the body, and the Denver chapter had to post a guard at the grave until the rock shaft was dug deeper.

The hatchet was not buried until 1968, when Lookout Mountain (Denver) and Cedar Mountain (Cody) exchanged smoke signals and the spirit of Buffalo Bill moved from one mountain to another on a white horse without a rider.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Almost all objects and phenomena that exist in nature correspond to some kind of science that studies them. Oceanography is a complex of all sciences related to the study of the ocean, which helps a person to find out how the ocean appeared, what processes take place in it.

As you can imagine, this requires serious research! Let's see what's included.

You can start from the coastline. The seashore (or the boundary between land and sea) is constantly changing due to tides, winds, the daily impact of the sea on the coast, and the up and down movements of the land. The temperature and salt content of the oceans are also studied. And, oddly enough, man still does not have a satisfactory explanation for why the ocean is salty.

And the tides? Tides are regular movements of water associated with the attraction of the Sun and Moon. They are also constantly studied by oceanographers. Now let's move on to currents. Ocean currents are like rivers flowing through the ocean. They are warmer or colder than the waters they pass through. Because currents are of great importance to humans, they are constantly being studied. As we know, plants and living organisms of countless species live in the ocean. Oceanographers and this area pay a lot of attention. What is the depth of the ocean in different places? This is also very important for humans, and there are scientists who only measure ocean depths. A person is even interested in what happens at the bottom of the ocean.

We know that up to a depth of 3657 meters the ocean floor is covered with soft, silty mud. It consists of calcareous skeletons of tiny marine organisms. The animal and plant life of the ocean floor is studied from samples of silt taken from there.

In general, the ocean, which seems to most of us just a huge body of water, is actually a huge and complex organism, about which a person wants to know as much as possible. And oceanographers increase our knowledge of the ocean by continually studying everything it is made of and contains.

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