Long before the first (36)
arrived in American, a strange looking animal lived on the western
(37) . It looked somewhat like a water buffalo. It (38)
to eat the rich grass of the plains. The (39) name
of the strange animal is the American bison. However, nearly everyone calls it a
buffalo. In the early days, millions of buffaloes moved freely
across the (40) .They were (41) animals
and ran with great speed. The Indian hunted them for food and
clothing. In the 19th (42) , white
men began to hunt the bison for their skins. They seldom killed the bison for
meat. One famous (43) , however, Bufallo Bill Cody hunted
buffalo for meat. (44) As a result, many buffaloes were
killed during that time. However, (45) .There were times when
five or six bullets would not kill him, and buffalo hunters sometimes had a lot
of trouble killing the animal. (46) .Finally, in the West,
the expression, to buffalo, came to mean to make one helpless or to confuse and
trick.
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