The poem "The Buffalo Skinners" shows how hard life was on the American frontier, which goes against any idealized ideas about that way of life. Recruiters like Crego lured people to work on the buffalo range by saying it would be fun and pay would be fair, but the speaker of the poem quickly reveals the hard truth: life on the buffalo range was not at all nice. Reflecting on the experience, he says, "Our meat, it was of buffalo hump, like iron was our bread, / And all we had to sleep on was a buffalo for a bed" (Anonymous 11-12). Through this image, the poet highlights the relentless…