As our hero disembarks from the train, you spy a massive pile of buffalo bones - last home to a million roaming spikes - so a bystander says.
I ask: was this a prop, or for real?
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It was true in history but for movie purposes they probably got either cattle bones from a packing house or made replicas of plastic.
In the west after killing almost all the buffalos unemployed men went around with wagons gathering the bones. I know they were ground up but don't remember what they were used for. These days bone meal is used in plant nurseries.
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I guess we'll never know. It was a massive prop, if they were fake.
Never seen anything in a film like it.
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The catacombs under Paris are filled with miles of human bones and are a tourist attraction. People get lost. Try you tube
I remember I read or saw something about there were huge pits of plague victims from medieval times in Paris. One day during excavation for construction one side wall of dirt collapsed and there was a tidal wave of putrid corpses and bones. This happened a long time ago.
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The bones were ground up for fertilizer.
shareThey were probably cattle bones from a slaughter house. I'm sure it wasn't a pile of bones all the way down either. They probably built mounts the put the bones on top of it. Extremely impressive effect though. The buffaloes were almost hunted to extinction. The Indians detested the whites for that among other things as the buffalo was their main food source.
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