. Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities . ffalo to be seen as far as the eye couldreach. In 1871 there were two great buffalo herds in the UnitedStates — south and north. The former, estimated at 3,000,000head, had ceased to exist in two years. In 1880, at the timeof the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the northernherd was estimated to contain 1,500,000 head. During the follow-ing year the Hudson Bay Company exterminated 230,000 ofthem in order to secure their tongues and hides. When it was already too
. Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities . ffalo to be seen as far as the eye couldreach. In 1871 there were two great buffalo herds in the UnitedStates — south and north. The former, estimated at 3,000,000head, had ceased to exist in two years. In 1880, at the timeof the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the northernherd was estimated to contain 1,500,000 head. During the follow-ing year the Hudson Bay Company exterminated 230,000 ofthem in order to secure their tongues and hides. When it was already too late to do much toward saving theremnant of this noble animal. Congress interested itself in thematter. As many bisons as could be found were taken tothe Yellowstone Park, and another refuge for the buffaloes wasestablished in 1891 at the Salt Lake in Utah. In 1894 therewere 200 of these animals in Yellowstone Park. Two yearslater only fifty of these were left, because poachers, either withthe aid or the connivance of the park officials, roamed about thegreat national reservation, and shot down the animals at their. Fighting Buffaloes (a Vanishing Animal). A VANISHING ANIMAL. 249 own cruel pleasure. The number of buffaloes in Canada in1889 was placed at 650 by an eminent Canadian authority. Incommenting on this circumstance the same authority remarked :The Indian is perishing with the buffalo. One result of the extermination of the buffalo was that theIndians began to starve. They grew restless, revolted, andwent on the war-path against the white settlers. The lattertook terrific reprisals, and the general result was a war ofextermination between the red man and the white, with all toopathetic results for the former. The buffalo or bison is an animal of imposing head is thick and powerful, and somewhat larger in the bullthan in the cow. The horns of both male and female are shortand thick, curved outward and then upward, and pointed inagain. The head, neck, an
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