The Killing Age

The Killing Age

Ch10.2. Bison bones

This mountain of bison bones were being prepared for processing at one of America's largest nineteenth century factories in Detroit, Michigan.

back to images & maps Ch10.2. Bison bones Ch10.2. Bison bones. Rougeville, Michigan, 1892. Detroit Public Library. Bones were big business, especially bison bones in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Today it is hard to imagine that for a time bones littered the American Plains for as far as the eye could see. […]

Ch10.1. Textile Factory

This illustration of an English textile factory shows the importance of belting to the Industrial Revolution.

back to images & maps Ch10.1. Textile Factory Ch10.1. Textile Factory. The industrial production of cotton. For millennia, humans around the world have cultivated cotton and produced cloth. Invariably, cotton did not travel far to get to the loom. This all began changing in the eighteenth century and especially in the 1800s. Female laborers are […]