In an issue of the journal Wonderland, the Northern Pacific Railroad Company introduced eastern readers to a view of the west from the railcar: "We are now in the far-famed Yellowstone Valley. . . . There are but few Indians now to be seen along the line of the railroad, and those are engaged in agricultural and industrial pursuits. The extinction of the buffalo has rendered the Indian much more amenable to the civilizing influences brought to bear upon him than he formerly was." In the view of the railroad, what made the Yellowstone Valley more appealing?