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The American Buffalo

The rifles weighed12 to 16 pounds, had longer and wider barrelsthat could handle larger...

The rifles weighed
12 to 16 pounds, had longer and wider barrels
that could handle larger amounts of gunpowder
to fire heavier slugs of lead
with great accuracy over a distance
of 400 yards, even reach targets more than
a thousand yards away

Full Transcript

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The rifles weighed 12 to 16 pounds,
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had longer and wider barrels that could handle
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larger amounts of gunpowder to fire heavier slugs
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of lead with great accuracy
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over a distance of 400 yards,
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even reach targets
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more than a thousand yards away.
Duration
22 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:05:32
Uploaded
Apr 22, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary, history

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Movie Summary

A journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution.
S01 • E02 Madison Grant would eventually put his racist theories - The American Buffalo 00:16
Madison Grant would eventually put his racist theories
S01 • E02 Nijhuis: Hornaday was stridently anti-Catholic, - The American Buffalo 00:07
Nijhuis: Hornaday was stridently anti-Catholic,
S01 • E01 [Gunshot echoes] - The American Buffalo 00:17
[Gunshot echoes]
S01 • E02 He blamed Italian Americans and African Americans, - The American Buffalo 00:10
He blamed Italian Americans and African Americans,
S01 • E02 West: These racists, these White supremacists, - The American Buffalo 00:09
West: These racists, these White supremacists,
S01 • E01 Then he picked out a lead buffalo, - The American Buffalo 00:10
Then he picked out a lead buffalo,
S01 • E02 But they were sure there. They were sure there. - The American Buffalo 00:06
But they were sure there. They were sure there.
S01 • E02 Narrator: More than 1,500 miles west of the Bronx Zoo, - The American Buffalo 00:15
Narrator: More than 1,500 miles west of the Bronx Zoo,
S01 • E01 [Gunshot] - The American Buffalo 00:05
[Gunshot]
S01 • E01 It would stand there, get woozy, fall over dead. - The American Buffalo 00:07
It would stand there, get woozy, fall over dead.
S01 • E01 The other animals see the lead animal laying there, - The American Buffalo 00:06
The other animals see the lead animal laying there,
S01 • E02 In South Dakota, Frederick Dupuis, - The American Buffalo 00:17
In South Dakota, Frederick Dupuis,
S01 • E01 Now, if they started to drift, - The American Buffalo 00:07
Now, if they started to drift,
S01 • E01 [Gunshot] anything you can do to not - The American Buffalo 00:09
[Gunshot] anything you can do to not
S01 • E01 Another one goes down. They mill around - The American Buffalo 00:11
Another one goes down. They mill around
S01 • E02 In the early 1880s, just as the hide hunters - The American Buffalo 00:14
In the early 1880s, just as the hide hunters
S01 • E01 Of defense mechanism that had evolved over time. - The American Buffalo 00:06
Of defense mechanism that had evolved over time.
S01 • E02 By the time Frederick died in 1898, - The American Buffalo 00:09
By the time Frederick died in 1898,
S01 • E01 Narrator: Native people who saw the new buffalo guns in action - The American Buffalo 00:13
Narrator: Native people who saw the new buffalo guns in acti...
S01 • E02 A Scottish immigrant, James Philip-- - The American Buffalo 00:18
A Scottish immigrant, James Philip--