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Original - A pile of bison skulls in the 1870s. Alt 1: unrestored version Alt 2: much more conservatively restored version. Reason Previously featured (recently delisted for resolution) for its high EV and impact nothing has changed except its size. Articles in which this image appears American Old West, American bison. Bison hunting.
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A pile of bison skulls (circa 1870). The North American bison were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to very small numbers by the mid-1880s. More selected images
A pile of American bison skulls, waiting to be ground for fertilizer; a man stands atop the pile, with another in front of it. Bison, long a staple of Plains Indian tribal culture, were aggressively hunted by European settlers in the United States, nearly leading to the extinction of the species.
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Bison skull pile, 1870s Reason 576 × 461 pixels, file size: 175 KB. Encyclopedic, but not even close to minimum on the technical side. A 2005 nomination that may have been the site's best back then, but just isn't up to par anymore.