. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. sions must be protected, and we at once dis-mounted and scattered among the teams in such away as to offer the most successful defense. Our fears were groundless. In a few momentsCody came galloping back on Brigham, and saidbriefly that we should lose
. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. sions must be protected, and we at once dis-mounted and scattered among the teams in such away as to offer the most successful defense. Our fears were groundless. In a few momentsCody came galloping back on Brigham, and saidbriefly that we should lose a fine lesson in naturalhistory unless we hurried to the front. Truth com-pels me to say that we did not hanker after a closeacquaintance with Lo on the rampage; yet we didearnestly desire to improve every opportunity ofstudying the other inhabitants of the plains, and afew moments accordingly found our whole party peer-ing over the edge of the bluff into the valley below. There, on a patch of bottom grass, half a dozen elkwere feeding; a short distance away, a small herd ofwild horses drank from the brook; while in a ravineimmediately in front of us, three cayotes were at-tempting to capture a jackass-rabbit. What a wealthof animal life this valley had opened to us. Fromour own level the table-lands stretched away in all oD M7 >-NM2*. THE SCENE TERMINATED. 199 directions until striking its grassy waves againstthe horizon, with not a shrub, tree, or beast to re-lieve the clearly-cut outlines. Casting our eyes up-ward, the bright blue sky, clear of every vestige ofclouds, arched down until resting on our prairie floor,and not even a bird soared in the air to charm theprofound space with the eloquence of life. Castingour eyes downward, the earth was all astir with theactivity of its brute creation. Before we could make any effort at capture, theelk and horses winded us and fled awav toward theopposite ridges, where stalking them would havebeen exceedingly difficult, if not im
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