John Mooar

John Wesley Mooar was, along with his brother Josiah Wright Mooar one of the major buffalo (bison) hunters in the United States prior to the animal's near extinction in 1883. The brothers had the foresight to invest their hunting profits in other ventures at the height of the profitable period, so by 1879 they had left the hunting fields, with John Wesley running a cattle ranch purchased with their proceeds.{{cite book|author=Andrew C. Isenberg|title=The destruction of the bison: an environmental history, 1750-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_lyumM8d84C&pg=PA159|accessdate=25 September 2011|date=15 January 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-00348-3|pages=159-}}