Aug 11, 2012
"The bones had been gathered into windrows ten feet high and hundreds long or into great conical hills topped with the signs or brands of their owners." -Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
"Great rows and piles of bison bone and skull would have been a common sight upon the Great Plains towards the end of the 19th century, and McCarthy’s imagery of windrows and hills offers an appropriate description of a landscape that may have appeared to the eye to consist entirely of bone.
It is estimated that the skeletons of 178,500,000 buffalo were shipped east to be ground for fertiliser, paints and adhesives." -Bookdrum
