About four miles to the west and south we found an ideal hunters' camp: plenty of fresh water, good grass, and wood in abundance. Here we made headquarters... We were in a veritable hunter's paradise... We must have these 3361 hides that this region is to furnish us inside of three months, within a radius of eight miles from this main camp. So at it we went. And Hart...started out, and in two hours had killed sixty-three bison. -Buffalo hunter, quoted in the Border and the Buffalo The actions described above contributed most directly to -

1)the increase of the longhorn cattle population and large scale ranching
2)the end of the traditional way of life for Native Americans
3)the elimination of cattle trails as a means to transport goods
4) the invention of the Colt Six Shooter for protection from buffalo herds ​