. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ll expressed in the followinglines: Ill chase the antelope over the plain,The tigers cub Ill bind with a the wild gazelle, with its silvery feet,Ill give thee for a playmate sweet. ■—Sonci of Ossian E. Dodge, i8so. THE BUFFALO REPUBLIC In the summer of 1865 General John M. Corse and staff visited Fort Wads-worth on Kettle Lake, afterwards known as Sisseton, North Dakota, and par-ticipated in a buffalo hunt arranged by the officers of the post, there being a herdof buffalo in the vicinity estimated at 30,000. The party n
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ll expressed in the followinglines: Ill chase the antelope over the plain,The tigers cub Ill bind with a the wild gazelle, with its silvery feet,Ill give thee for a playmate sweet. ■—Sonci of Ossian E. Dodge, i8so. THE BUFFALO REPUBLIC In the summer of 1865 General John M. Corse and staff visited Fort Wads-worth on Kettle Lake, afterwards known as Sisseton, North Dakota, and par-ticipated in a buffalo hunt arranged by the officers of the post, there being a herdof buffalo in the vicinity estimated at 30,000. The party numbered about 100, and was led by Gabriel Renville, a mixed-blood Sioux, chief of the Indian Scouts, who conducted them to the vicinityof the Hawks Nest, a high peak in the coteaus or hills near this point. Renvillegave the signal, and he and his party of Indian scouts began whooping and yell-ing, and rushed into the herd, followed by the officers and their visitors. Onelieutenant of the generals staff, who was riding the finest horse of the party, t5 z is. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 37 became so excited that he dropped one revolver and shot his horse in the backof the head with the other. Renville was armed with a Henry rifle—a sixteenshooter—and, making every shot good, killed sixteen buffalo. Charles Crawford,a noted .Sioux Indian scout, armed in the same manner, killed fifteen, and otherskilled their proportion. Samuel J. Brown, one of the party, attacked an unusually large, fine-lookingbull, which he cut out of the herd and chased until he had exhausted his lastshot, when the animal turned on him and ran him more than three miles. TwiceBrown tried to avoid his pursuer or mislead him by dodging around a hill,but the animal would slowly ascend it and as soon as he discovered his tormentor,would again pursue him. The buffalo was finally killed by the soldiers in theimmediate vicinity of the camp. The visit of General Corse, and the hunt were celebrated in the mannerusual
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