Chapter 15

Quiz for Document 15-3: J. Wright Mooar, Buffalo Days (1933)

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Question 1

J. Wright Mooar’s Buffalo Days documents which of the following phenomena that contributed to the transformation of the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century?

Question 2

According to Mooar, the weapon essential to large-scale bison hunting was a 50-caliber rifle developed specifically for bison hunters by

Question 3

What growing western industry, according to Mooar, was the customer for the tons of cured bison meat being supplied by him and his fellow buffalo hunters?

Question 4

To where, according to Mooar, did Texas business owner Charley Rath move his store as bison become increasingly scarce in 1879?

Question 5

What threat, according to Mooar’s account, made the life of a buffalo hunter particularly dangerous?