. The Saturday evening post. part; for with the beginnings of boththese herds chance gave me an intimate knowledge notaccorded to many men. I cannot say that this knowledgeis to-day a matter of pride so much as of sadness. Thestory of the bison in America is a tragedy, a tragedy ofignoble sort, which not all our best efforts in repentanceever can much alter now. Of course, every American schoolboy knows, or shouldknow, that the bison once ranged from the Carolinas to thewestern slopes of the Rockies; from the upper tropics ofMexico north to the subarctic regions. Hardy and prolific,it had show
. The Saturday evening post. part; for with the beginnings of boththese herds chance gave me an intimate knowledge notaccorded to many men. I cannot say that this knowledgeis to-day a matter of pride so much as of sadness. Thestory of the bison in America is a tragedy, a tragedy ofignoble sort, which not all our best efforts in repentanceever can much alter now. Of course, every American schoolboy knows, or shouldknow, that the bison once ranged from the Carolinas to thewestern slopes of the Rockies; from the upper tropics ofMexico north to the subarctic regions. Hardy and prolific,it had shown its right to survive in practically all theenvironment of the North American Continent, and thespecial was one of the most valuable the earth ever pro-duced in any country or at any time. In some? parts ofthe country its numbers were fairly incredible; and the onlysagas, the only actual American traditions that we have,tell us over and over the tales of the buffalo days, so closelyallied wit h our first national Show Herd in Yellowstone Park Working Down to the Winter RaAbove—Grazing in the Highlands Boone, Kenton, Crockett—it was well enough to givethose names to the little North Carolina herd. Whenthose frontiersmen crossed the Appalachians they leftbehind them a buffalo range already old, to find a betterone just beyond the hills. Kentucky then swarmed withbuffalo. To-day, in that old state of Boone and Kenton,there are just two captive buffalo alive—both females andboth, of course, imported from other states. Would it beof interest to make a summary of the numbers of buffalonow alive in each state of the Union which may claim anyliving specimens? Statistics are not always interesting,but these do seem so. The alphabetical list begins on the third letter. Cali-fornia has thirty-seven buffalo, Colorado two hundred andtwelve, the District of Columbia twenty-one. Georgiaowns two buffalo, tying Kentucky. Idaho has now onlyeight head left of its once large pri
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