Junior Detective Series - 4b

To American Indians the buffalo meant life. It was food, homes, clothing, tools, and much more. But to many of those settlers wanting to farm, ranch, build railroads, and start towns in Kansas, the buffalo was in the way of progress.

Settlers, professional hunters, and sportsmen hunted the buffalo not only for food but for the money they could make selling hides and bones. Finally, so few buffalo were left that they were almost extinct. C. J. "Buffalo" Jones worked as a buffalo hunter in Kansas before he decided to work with buffalo in a different way.