Common sayings that are wrong or butchered

[Jstpssng]

"Scrimshaw," isn't a noun. Its an activity.

I believe that it's both a verb and a noun . One is the act of carving, the other is the end result.

 

[JasperFrank]

The large, land bovines that lived across the central plains of North America are Bisons. They are not Buffaloes. Even the Natural Parks people have tried to set this straight, with little effect.

 

[Jstpssng]

The large, land bovines that lived across the central plains of North America are Bisons. They are not Buffaloes. Even the Natural Parks people have tried to set this straight, with little effect.

An article in The American Hunter a few years back tried to make the case that the bison weren't wiped out by hunters. Rather, the influx of cattle brought with it some version of chronic wasting disease which decimated the massive herds. I only read the theory once, and have never seen it again.

 

[JasperFrank]

Uh... There were entire trains set up to do nothing other than let people shoot Bison. It was a thing to subjugate the Native Americans. Real history, is just plan horrible.

 

[Jstpssng]

Uh... There were entire trains set up to do nothing other than let people shoot Bison. It was a thing to subjugate the Native Americans. Real history, is just plan horrible.

I know and understand that. However, what we were taught isn't always true. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the status quo, merely suggesting other viewpoints.

Some wildlife groups state the professional buffalo hunters decimated the bison. However, simple math may prove otherwise. Holt explains that a study by Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 1889, reveals records of animals shot and hides traded show the number of animals killed has never exceeded the natural increase. “Estimates show bison numbers of around 65 million. Every year hundreds of thousands of buffalo were harvested. If they were fossils or statues and you took hundreds of thousands from 21 to 88 million every year, then in 21 to 440 years you’d get rid of them all. But what do tens of millions of bison have every year? They have millions of calves,” Stoneberg Holt explains.

This led her to become very curious as to why bison numbers plummeted in the late 19th century when research shows professional hunters’ extermination of all buffalo was a myth with no factual basis. She discovered two candidates for a death-by-disease theory: Texas tick fever in the Montana area and anthrax in the Nebraska area. In digging through more history books, Stoneberg Holt unearthed the evidence of epidemics. She found that Dr. Sam Fadala quoted trapper Yellowstone Kelly who circa 1867 found bodies of ‘dead buffalo as far as the eye could see that bore no mark of a bullet or arrow wounds.’

What really happened to the bison?

Bison are the iconic symbol of the American West. From literature to advertising to art, the awesome creatures have had a strong presence is the psyche of American people.

www.tsln.com

 

[JasperFrank]

Maybe the Bison died out the same way that the Natives did.
Had not of heard of this idea before about the land animals. Very interesting.
The immigrants bring stuff to a culture that has not had any integration for 15 thousand years. And no way to quickly figure it out, and they collapse. So it is also believable that Bovine diseases would have also spread through the native cattle that had no immunity to it.

 

[Jstpssng]

Maybe the Bison died out the same way that the Natives did.
Had not of heard of this idea before about the land animals. Very interesting.
The immigrants bring stuff to a culture that has not had any integration for 15 thousand years. And no way to quickly figure it out, and they collapse. So it is also believable that Bovine diseases would have also spread that the native cattle that had no immunity to it.

That's why I mentioned it. Reading further into the article though, they suggest that overgrazing may have led to their demise. It described how a local tribe had been wiped out by small pox about 20 years earlier and they may somehow have managed the herd.

Also consider the source of the article; a Rancher's magazine. Yet that was just one of several articles on the subject which I found with a quick search.

 

[Cougsfan]

One that I heard that struck me as ironic; saying 'versa visa' instead of 'visa versa'

 

[dstig1]

I like to say "We'll blow up that bridge when we come to it" instead of "cross that bridge" and see if it gets a reaction

 

[JasperFrank]

I don't think any one ever SHOOT FISH in a Barrel.