. The Saturday evening post. PHOTO. 8Y NATIONAL PARK SERVICE THE state of North Carolina recentlyacquired all of six buffalo. They arein Pisgah Park, and their names areDaniel Boone, Simon Kenton, DavyCrockett, Virginia Dare, Betty Zane andWinnie Davis—nomenclature mostly co-lonial and wholly Southern, as was appro-priate in the circumstances. These buffalocame from the Austin Corbin herd of NewHampshire, and were shipped from BlueMountain Forest Park of that state onJanuary 16,1920. The Corbin herd, oncethe best-known buffalo herd in the world,at that time numbered about one hun-dred animals.

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. The Saturday evening post. PHOTO. 8Y NATIONAL PARK SERVICE THE state of North Carolina recentlyacquired all of six buffalo. They arein Pisgah Park, and their names areDaniel Boone, Simon Kenton, DavyCrockett, Virginia Dare, Betty Zane andWinnie Davis—nomenclature mostly co-lonial and wholly Southern, as was appro-priate in the circumstances. These buffalocame from the Austin Corbin herd of NewHampshire, and were shipped from BlueMountain Forest Park of that state onJanuary 16,1920. The Corbin herd, oncethe best-known buffalo herd in the world,at that time numbered about one hun-dred animals. As it was proposed to re-duce the size of this collection variousparks and associations were made bene-ficiaries at a cost very reasonable in viewof all the facts. Thus there was writtenone more chapter in the strange storyof the American bison. It chanced that I read the details of this North Carolinashipment during the month of July while on a visit to theYellowstone Park. The annual report of the AmericanBison Society

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