. Bulletin. Ethnology. ANTHROP. Pap. No. 33] OF THE CROW NATION—DENIG 21 low down as the mouth of the Yellowstone.* That portion of their country lying east of the mountains is perhaps the best game country in the world. From the base of the mountains to the mouth of the Yellowstone buffalo are always to be found in immense herds. Along that river elk may be seen in droves of several hundred at a time, also large bands of deer both of black-tailed and white-tailed species.^ An- telope cover the prairies, and in the badlands near the mountains are found in great plenty bighorn sheep and grizzly
. Bulletin. Ethnology. ANTHROP. Pap. No. 33] OF THE CROW NATION—DENIG 21 low down as the mouth of the Yellowstone.* That portion of their country lying east of the mountains is perhaps the best game country in the world. From the base of the mountains to the mouth of the Yellowstone buffalo are always to be found in immense herds. Along that river elk may be seen in droves of several hundred at a time, also large bands of deer both of black-tailed and white-tailed species.^ An- telope cover the prairies, and in the badlands near the mountains are found in great plenty bighorn sheep and grizzly bear. Every creek and river teems with beaver, and good fish and fowl can be had at any stream in the proper THE CROV COUNTRY 1855 Map 1.—The Crow country, 1855. The once almost fabulous country of the Rocky Mountains is now so well known as scarcely to need description. The scenery of the dis- trict now under consideration does not materially differ from that in other parts of their range. The same high, stony peaks and eternal ' Wbile at the Crow camp on an island in the Yellowstone River a few miles east of present Billings, Mont., September 14,1805, Larocque recorded the earliest known definition of Crow territory. "They told me that in winter they were always to be found at a Park by the foot of the Mountain a few miles from this or thereabouts. In the spring and fall they are upon this River and in summer upon the Tongue and Horses River" (Larocque, 1910, p. 45). "Horses River" is present Pryor Creek. Today the Crow Reservation lies within the area occupied by the Crow a century and a half ago. Figure 1 of this publica- tion shows the Crow coimtry at the time of Denig's writing, as defined by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, and confirmed In its northern limits by the Blackfoot Treaty of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appear
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