Show THE MAN WHO SAVED THE BUFFALO PERHAPS the greatest slaughter terin la the history of the world was one accompaniment of pushing back the last american frontier that was the destruction of the vast buffalo herds which w once roamed the great plains between the mississippi river and the rocky mountains ilow how many millions of the animals were killed in less than a quarter century of concentrated effort at wholesale execution will never be known but by the middle of the eighties there was only it a pitifully small number r of survivors and these had no legal protection however about this time one of the men who had been for the I 1 decimation of the buffalo had a change of heart he be was charles J jones a native of illinois and a settler in kansas who had ben been employed as a hunter by the union pacific railroad to provide meat for its laborers sometimes I 1 becaro sickened at the slaughter of the defenseless brutes and felt like throwing down my crifie and never shooting another one of them said said I 1 jones in 1880 I 1 saw that the bison was doomed and I 1 resolved to stone atone tor for my cussedness cust edness by saying saving as many an s I 1 could so he assembled a party of cowboys an and d rode down into the texas pan handle to capture buffalo cal calves 1 they roped 14 of the little fellows I 1 vu but t could save only tour four of them tile tha re remainder ni afinder literally went mad in captivity and died quickly the next year jones went to the panhandle again captured 10 calves and saved eight two later trips netted him 37 calves and with these as ai a nucleus he eventually built rip a herd U rf several hundred 1 buffalo milo on his ranch near garden city kin kan by this ume time the american public had realized the nils mistake talce that had been aade ade and becaro acamo aroused to 0 o tile the necessity e for action to correct it dul but even with public sentiment baak 0 of f th the a effort to save the buffalo it li Is doubtful if it could have succeeded had bad it ft not been tor for buffalo zones as hebe ho became universally khoii N n bis long work of atonement him a herd of bifro bison from tn which he e sup up P iw pled a igals nl nial to bring orang new st strains ins ef ct blood lato the fast dwindling herdia in n parks |