Show buffalo hones the lime was when a buffalo pr scorned of 0 gathering up dry bones for a living indeed it often happened that his royal highness would not even deign to skin the buffalo that his own rifle brought down but thanks to his own reckless improvidence Ot hellos occupations gone the buffalo are all dead aadne must choose between punching cows and picking up bones to this extent the slain buffalo is his own avenger at various points along the line or the northern pacific kail 1 way westward from jamestown dakota buffalo bones lio piled in great I 1 heaps beside the track waiting for shipment they are the only bonu ments that remain to the american bison which to quote the great original observation of every tenderfoot once roamed in vast herds over these boundless pharies pr aries in a short time oven the bones will bo gathered up and nothing whatever remain to mark the presence upon this earth of eight million bison and at one tune save what can be found in the museums the zoological gardens or tho tertiary deposits of the earth itself could any war of extermination be more complete or far reaching jn its results from the bed buttes onward you see where the millions have gone this was once a famous buffalo range and now the bleaching skeletons lie scattered thickly all along the trail like ghastly monuments of slaughter these ugly excrescences stand out in bold relief on the smooth hard surface of tho prairie from the huge bull skeletons lying close beside the wagon trail to those far back in the bad lands where they are merely dark specks in tho distance they lie today to day precisely as they fell four years ago except that the flesh is no longer upon them the bead stretches far forward as if for its last grasp and the legs lie helplessly up on the turf with precisely the same curves as when they moved for the last time |