Visual Activity for Chapter 17
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“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.
VISUAL ACTIVITY
Question 1.3
READING THE IMAGE: What virtues and stereotypes of the West does this magazine cover extol?
Question 1.4
CONNECTIONS: How does the magazine’s subtitle, “Journal of Civilization,” fit the picture?