Splits the y axis into two separate regions to avoid unnecessary blank space. The split interval is determined by the y-axis values minYvalue and maxYvalue. Example: a=20*rand(21,1)+10; figure;hold on; plot(a); breakyaxis([14 21]);
Why did the U.S. Army encourage the slaughter of millions of buffalo? The US Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo because  the army wanted to kill Native Americans and everything that keeps  them alive. The buffalo provided theâ¦m with food, shelter, and are  used for religious practices. Slaughtering buffaloes took this  source away from the Native Americans.
All the while Cody was earning a reputation for skill and bravery in real life, he was also becoming a national folk hero, thanks to the exploits of his alter ego, Buffalo Bill, in the dime novels of Ned Buntline (pen name of the writer E. Z. C. Judson).y his own count, he killed 4,280 head of buffalo in seventeen months. He is supposed to have won the name Buffalo Bill in an eight-hour shooting match with a hunter named William Comstock, presumably to determine which of the two Buffalo Bill s deserved the title.