Show migrations OF THE BUFFALO drifting north and ami south from their home hoa around itie ac upper missouri I 1 wits jit III tile the buffalo country ai ai 1 i early an 62 and during the your following follo years I 1 traversed tr i versed their ranges from southern texas to the gallatin Gall alln river fit I 1 montano and at that date I 1 know that the buffalo could only be found in cor tain lobs localities tat nt certain one that I 1 cros d texa its H entire breadth from the gulf cull to ft the staked plain and more than hall half its delleth front from north it to mouth and ami nevor nor heard of IL buffalo all the cattlemen anil sand rangers who bete constantly 4 huntzis cattle and for 1 indian over eveir portion of 0 tho the state stale declared aba tha t th they y had bad gone north getting into the indian Tearl tory in ili the caily cu c u ly fall fait wo we round found a few old bulls bull never m more ore t than inn throe three or four in ft a bunch bly like those in tile the wake tr of an amy aimy I 1 do not believe li hove there then wan wa at that time ti IL shirlo buffalo in III the state stale or of texas that thai was ablo able to lo ret get out a of f it 11 and P nav a 0 fen ff outcasts here and there in U hii L territory as an we crossed it tit sit a 1 point I 1 it well with grass graas and wit wilier alor and at A dl distance tance from nh all indian settlements lell lement texas was geographic aVy an ideal buffalo country ry but the of u falo Is decidedly dak nn 0 epicure onel and its ita era sacs ancie to in li ahli 19 t taste aste interior 1 to ro thane sf tile coith the grett hord berd cr d the hi platte iwuc annually goi ing ine north in the spring and south into lit in the iho rail but bait it 1 l never tarried there and of tho the thousands of which passed along alone tin on both steles sides rf PIE the river tat at that early date bound for 3 river salt lake and Calir tin not one half hair of then them mot met with A 0 single buffalo the loik and the llie smoky ditl liver were bo bolever oever ra 1 wint ranges and preferred by I 1 taci ha I 1 to adv portion of DIE texas for the quality tf of lite gratin on those rivets was better than it was elther c south ol 01 air along malonff the platte it 11 will perhaps be remembered that abile the india indians PA made anade treaties permitting travel by jasons und land later bv rail up ill the e platte they fought both bolli propositions miserly on the smoky hill but th ill home par excellence of the buffalo tile he land find wera he was at rest and away from which lie wits waa never d t to lay flay was the preat great vat levs of ite 1 the he its slid and the upper hil bourl here the encee ENc et nutritious buffalo ri arrais as of v thich be h was waa never happy h appy grew in E abundance don don n el acry cry mountain ilde i lit or 0 f that favored oreil land tumbled crystal streams of most refreshing coolness where lie he could quench his thirst arid and stand immersed for luuis total in tile the it heat eat of oc the day f 0 able to r endure I 1 aith A ith impunity a climate or arctic I 1 grantly from fro ht var find and lilleaas heio liel eaAs lii eyb birn ahl land of andle andja waa only when ahe he aply drifted arnow of winter i irises deprived dom dem hav hitri m krhin I 1 that t ho he reluctantly turned h hla facca towards I 1 th cating sun still and on a linot another ber wanderer mho liagin once cut cul lo 10 loose 0 front from tin the circle of home ri finds nd S tin no tie llo it to hind big wayward foot elt to tile grinj lri nJ south southward waid even it to tile lb land or of tile the aztec but bait lie he lid did not stay there ife he never forgot that he was waa but a visitor in a strange land anti and when the krcal great white while of if winter rolled away neav ahn th oft aft breeds of early apt ing laid and the tender kraa springing into renewed r life beean to tint the lot lors of oc the lite prairie then did he rather gather together hill h countless cohorts and northward in fit a might v hon hoft to tile sources of those great ernst livers alint now flow both ca eastward stuard and debt maaia to the sea I 1 these migrations wore were at that time as an clealle 1 l and as an well understood as aa are thone of the lh itald scene and the old id frontiersman albans knew where lilt hid head wu was at any parth ular time alth uch large petona pc tona of 0 the tange were then 0 in un by hostile indiana who never hebi tilled to exter nil ini niilo nabe any party parly not for r beable to moke make th the success of an attack atack problematical forest and SO cam |