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Re: #7: "Bisons on the Great Plains" by Andrew Isenber
g and Brian Donahue, "The Rise and Fall of M
By: JTodd Date: January 16, 2019, 9:26 pm
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I would like to connect some of the first reading to some of my
experiences in the present-day Western Plains. There are many
herds of wild horses that roam throughout the Plains in Northern
Colorado and Southern Wyoming. I like thinking that those horses
are direct descendants of the horses brought from Europe to the
Americas in during colonization. I find the reason wild horses
came to be wild less fun of a concept.
Another thing you see a lot of in Wyoming are bison. Bison are
all over the place inside and outside of the national parks.
Their abundance has led to them being hunted again by big game
hunters interested. Bison farming has also risen in popularity,
as it has become known that bison meat is much healthier and
leaner than your ordinary beef.
Anyways...
I would also like to tie the role of horses in the spreading in
disease back to Jared Diamond. By Diamond's reasoning (and
Isenberg's), smallpox was able to spread through native peoples
because they hadn't previously built up an immunity from lack of
exposure. I also found it interesting to be reminded that horses
originated in the Americas, migrated to Asia, proceded to die
off in the Americas, and then return to the Americas once more
after millennia of taming and domestication.
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