The poem “The Buffalo Skinners” conveys the harsh reality and struggles embedded in the life of buffalo skinners, emphasizing how challenging life on the frontier could be. The speaker captures this theme through realistic descriptions of the extreme conditions and dangers faced by those hunting and skinning buffalo. In line seven, he explains, “Our meat, it was of buffalo hump, like iron was our bread” (Anonymous 13) which shows that they had little comfort and had to be very strong to survive. By comparing their food to “iron,” he uses a metaphor to show how rough their diet was…