How we cite our quotes:
Quote #10
"They're gone. Ever one of them that God ever made is gone as if they'd never been at all" (23.3).
Toward the end of this book, the kid has a conversation with an old buffalo hunter who's sad that all the buffalo in North America have been wiped out by hunters. In fact, half of the buffalo he's seen killed died for no reason other than the fact that the hunters were bored. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how species begin to go extinct.