. St. Nicholas [serial] . orthern herd equally acces-sible at all points; and in October, 1883, thelast thousand head were utterly annihilated, insouthwestern Dakota, by Sitting Bull and aband of about one thou-sand braves from theStanding Rock small bands, onecontaining about twohundred head and theother seventy-five, es- 1 ?y?lcaped into the bad lands :- -•of the Missouri River,in central Montana,where a few individualssurvived until 1887. An-other band took refugein the fastnesses of theYellowstone Park,wherea few survivors still are;or were at last accounts. The accompanyingmap
. St. Nicholas [serial] . orthern herd equally acces-sible at all points; and in October, 1883, thelast thousand head were utterly annihilated, insouthwestern Dakota, by Sitting Bull and aband of about one thou-sand braves from theStanding Rock small bands, onecontaining about twohundred head and theother seventy-five, es- 1 ?y?lcaped into the bad lands :- -•of the Missouri River,in central Montana,where a few individualssurvived until 1887. An-other band took refugein the fastnesses of theYellowstone Park,wherea few survivors still are;or were at last accounts. The accompanyingmap is designed to tellin the smallest limit ofspace the story of thepractical exterminationof the American the vast extentand varied character ofthe territory once inhabited by this lord of theplains. Not only did he inhabit the prairies ofthe West, but also the hilly hard-wood forestsof the southeastern States, the burning plainsof northern Mexico, the Great AmericanDesert, the Rocky Mountains to an elevation. MAP ILLUSTRATING THE EXTERMINATION OF * THE AMERICAN BISON. EXPLANATION :■ III Boundary of the area onceinhabited by the Range of the two great herds in 18-0.^KM Range of the northern herd in Range of the scattered survivorsof the southern herd in i8;5, afterthe great slaughter of 18-0-187^.• ••• Range of the northern herd inr884, after the great slaughter of1880-188^.Heavy figures represent the lo-cality and number of wild Bisonn existence January rst. 1895. Where the herds assembled, they covered theearth as with a black mantle. I venture tosay that no man ever saw in one day a greaterpanorama of animal life than did Colonel Dodge in May, 1871, when he drove fortwenty-five miles along the Arkansas River 676 THE BUFFALO, MUSK-OX, MOUNTAIN SHEEP, AND MOUNTAIN GOAT. [June, through an unbroken herd of Buffaloes. Onthat memorable day he actually saw, accordingto careful computation, nearly half a millionBuffaloes. It w
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