Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-18 | Page 4 | Monuments to Bison for Pioneer Trails

Monuments to Bison Bisom For Pioneer Trails Monuments erected by victor to vanquished are not unknown in history his his- tory ory The preliminary requirement requirements i is s that the defeated party shall be quite definitely beaten and rendered incapable of giving trouble It is the spirit In which Kipling made ac- ac of ot the virtues of Fuzzy It Is a requirement certainly met in inthe inthe inthe the case of the memorials to be erected erected erect erect- ed by the American Bison society to the vast buffalo herds that once thundered thun dered domed over the western plains There are to be three of these bronze tablets tab tab- lets ets one somewhere on Oregon Trail In n Nebraska one on the Santa Fe Fc Trail and one one in Wyoming where the herds made their l last st stand All these are appropriate enough but the Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming site is the kinder tribute To mark the two great trails is to mark the he weapons that brought destructIon destruction tion lion to the buffalo Roads are the chief executioners of at wild UI life e. Top Topes i lc es of the Times