Wikipedia:POTD row/November 10, 2006
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|style="padding-right:0.9em;"|Image:Bison skull pile, ca1870.png | Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American Bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Bison were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to a few hundred head by the mid-1880s, from which all the present day's managed herds are descended. The commercial take arguably was anywhere from 2,000 to 100,000 animals per day, though there are no statistics available. {{{type|Photo}}} credit: Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library |
