The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

We are grateful to the many scholars who have provided valuable feedback on this work. We are especially grateful to those who generously shared their data with us, including Christian Dippel, Andy Ferrara, Matthew Gregg, Matthew Jaremski, Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker and Richard Steckel. We also thank seminar participants at Brock University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Harvard University, Lester University, Michigan State University, Opportunity Insights, Queen's University, Toronto Metropolitan University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, University of Manitoba, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Northern British Columbia, University of Saskatchewan, University of Victoria, University of Waterloo, Vancouver School of Economics, and conference participants at the 2021 Yale Resilience Throughout History Workshop, 2018 Ostrom Workshop, 2018 NBER/DAE workshop, 2018 AEAs, 2017 CNEH meeting, 2017 EHA meetings, 2017 CPEG meetings, 2017 Northwest Development Workshop, and the 2016 EBHS meetings. The views in this paper do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. No external funding was received for this project. The authors have no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, related to this study. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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