American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.
I just finished watching this pbs doc:
The American Buffalo
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo
It’s actually about how the buffalo’s decimation in the 1800s greatly accelerated the destruction of native American Indians’ way of life. This shouldn’t be news to anyone, but then again the show should be required viewing for every American, as a reminder.