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==Preserving the buffalo==

==Preserving the buffalo==

Meanwhile, Jones started several buffalo herds about Garden City that served as the foundation for both private and public herds in the region. He found only 37 bison in the area. His small herd provided ten animals for a private zoo at a cost of $1,000 each.<ref name=kshs>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/resource/ks_preservation/kpmarapr02.pdf|title=Bison: the Amazing Animal, Section Saved from Extinction|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|accessdate=September 4, 2010}}</ref>

Meanwhile, Jones started several buffalo herds about Garden City that served as the foundation for both private and public herds in the region. He found only 37 bison in the area. His small herd provided ten animals for a private zoo at a cost of $1,000 each.<ref name=kshs>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/resource/ks_preservation/kpmarapr02.pdf|title=Bison: the Amazing Animal, Section Saved from Extinction|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|accessdate=March 19, 2021}}</ref>

In the spring of 1886, alarmed about the pending extinction of the bison, Jones set forth from Kendall in Hamilton County, Kansas, toward the Texas Panhandle to find remaining animals. He lassoed eighteen calves and took them safely back to Kansas. Such western authors as Emerson Hough (1857-1923)  began to notice Jones's contributions. Jones met the pioneer Texas rancher [[Charles Goodnight]], who was crossbreeding buffalo with cattle to produce beefalo, also called cattalo, an otherwise sturdy breed often born sterile. Jones himself later tried producing cattalo. From 1886 to 1889, Jones accumulated more than 50 head, including a buffalo herd he had purchased in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], which required shipment to Garden City. From this herd, Jones sold animals to zoos, parks, or to other ranchers. He personally delivered ten buffalo to a purchaser in [[Liverpool]], [[England]], a task which earned him $10,000, then a large amount of money. Jones was a victim of the [[Panic of 1893]]. A second ranch he purchased in [[Nebraska]] failed, and he sold his remaining herd to ranchers in [[Montana]] and [[California]].<ref name=hnetmsu/>

In the spring of 1886, alarmed about the pending extinction of the bison, Jones set forth from Kendall in Hamilton County, Kansas, toward the Texas Panhandle to find remaining animals. He lassoed eighteen calves and took them safely back to Kansas. Such western authors as Emerson Hough (1857-1923)  began to notice Jones's contributions. Jones met the pioneer Texas rancher [[Charles Goodnight]], who was crossbreeding buffalo with cattle to produce beefalo, also called cattalo, an otherwise sturdy breed often born sterile. Jones himself later tried producing cattalo. From 1886 to 1889, Jones accumulated more than 50 head, including a buffalo herd he had purchased in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], which required shipment to Garden City. From this herd, Jones sold animals to zoos, parks, or to other ranchers. He personally delivered ten buffalo to a purchaser in [[Liverpool]], [[England]], a task which earned him $10,000, then a large amount of money. Jones was a victim of the [[Panic of 1893]]. A second ranch he purchased in [[Nebraska]] failed, and he sold his remaining herd to ranchers in [[Montana]] and [[California]].<ref name=hnetmsu/>