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H.C.R. No. 10
HOUSE. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 WHEREAS, On October 7, 1876, Josiah Wright Mooar, one of the
2 most successful of the buffalo hunters and later a renowned Scurry
3 County pioneer, felled a white buffalo near the present-day site of
4 Snyder, Texas; and
5 WHEREAS, At the end of the Civil War, some 13 million buffalo
6 roamed the Gr:eat Plains; the animals provided nearly all the wants
7 of the Plains Indians and, through their great numbers, posed: a
8 tremendous obstacle to the establishment of ranching and farming in
9 that region; with the completion Of the first transcontinental
10 railroad in 1869, however, it became possible to transport buffalo
11 hides to eastern markets, and the profits to be made on the plains
12 quickly drew legions of hunters and skinners; and
13 WHEREAS, Born in Vermont in 1851, J. Wright Mooar traveled
14 west as a young man and worked as a buffalo hunter in western
15 Kansas., providing.meat for railroad crews and hides for the English
16 market; in 1871, he shipped a load of 57 buffalo hides to his
17 brother, John, then a jewelry clerk in New York City; the sale of
18 those hides to a tanning company resulted in an order for 2,000 more
19 and is credited with launching the American buffalo-hide industry;
20 and
21 WHEREAS, In 1873, the Mooars became part of the vanguard of
22 hunters moving into the Texas Panhandle; the brothers withdrew to
23 Kansas in 1874, during a series of Indian-army conflicts known as
24 the Red River War, but they returned to Texas in 1876; in October of
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 78th Texas Legislature, Fourth Called Session, House Concurrent Resolution 10, legislative document, May 23, 2003; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth158029/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.