I ordered that book off Amazon today and look forward to reading it. There's a lot of copies on there.

It's written from the bunny hugger angle, so be prepared for that. Still full of great information, I learned a lot about the birds reading it.

DLH

Destry....What a great post. Enjoyed the thread and your inspiration for further investigation of the passenger pigeon. Whether the stories of Captn Bogardus, glass ball shooting, or the early market gunning, all provide great prospective on the past. Thanks
AWW

Thanks Art

Interesting, I saw some at the museum of natural history in denver when I was a kid there was a recorded story about the bird it saddened me. The skull picture do you know where it was taken? I found a buffalo skull in the bottom of a creek once it was a old one the teeth were very worn.

No idea on the photo, the caption for it I've seen was something like "buffalo bones waiting to be ground for fertilizer" or something like that.

There are still buffalo skulls out there to be found. A friend brought one back he'd found sticking out of the ground while on a pheasant hunt in South Dakota just a few years ago.

Destry

I wonder if Parker Brothers and other American makers used buffalo bones from out west for their case hardening or if it was all locally sourced.

QUOTE=Bob Brown;148453]I wonder if Parker Brothers and other American makers used buffalo bones from out west for their case hardening or if it was all locally sourced.[/QUOTE]

Perhaps they used Passenger Pigeon beaks

The Passenger Pigeon
 

I believe in one of Archibald Rutledge's books, he recalls taking a single Passenger Pigeon at Hampton while in his youth. If I recall correctly, Rutledge was born in 1888. I do not remember which of Rutledge's books has this story.

Someone once did a seat of the pants research and determined that there were more passenger pigeons in the 19th century than ounces of lead mined in the history of man through that time.