Show how the herd was stopped A kopos the recent purchase by the canadian go eminent of one of the few s irvining irv iving herds of buffalo in the united states there is on record at the war del artmont a document locum ent bearing witness to how plentiful these animals were within the men ory of man men now living it Is the return of several rounds of cannon a i expended in kansas in 1867 to divert the course of d great herd of buffalo that was beading lo 10 a camp of sol diers that to overwhelm it at least ore is alive who saw these shot t 1 and he the herd as litera h reaching as far as the eve ill see it was a long time in lassing the camp whose occupants watched it in silence awed by the spectacle gen phill st george cooke who died but a few years ago at a very advanced age once halted a regiment of cavalry on the plains to permit a great heid of an telcie to pias and he was not a man easily I 1 acted alted when on duty ills humanity impelled hin hi n to withhold the regiment from manering man eling and maiming ahe ante lope which ere allow et the right of way |