VISUAL ACTIVITY “Slaughtered for the Hide” In 1874, Harper’s Weekly featured this illustration of a buffalo-hide hunter skinning a carcass on the southwestern plains. City father Colonel Richard Dodge wrote of the carnage, “The air was foul with sickening stench, and the vast plain which only a short twelve months before teemed with animal life, was a dead, solitary putrid desert.” Library of Congress. READING THE IMAGE: What virtues and stereotypes of the West does this magazine cover extol? CONNECTIONS: How did the slaughter of buffalo affect the lives of Plains Indians?