. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. l,/l- / f. 24 THE SCARCITY OF GAME, equally eager on the chase, but the game did not ap-pear at all enamored of my presence, so I had my am-munition for my pains. But, on the whole, our ban-quets on the luxuries of the chase were few and farbetween. Strange to say, we saw but few buffaloes(properly bison), not more than a dozen or so, all few we saw near where we forded the SouthPlatte.^ A spirited chase was being given the tempt-ing stragglers, and this within plain view of our mov-ing caravan. The s
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. l,/l- / f. 24 THE SCARCITY OF GAME, equally eager on the chase, but the game did not ap-pear at all enamored of my presence, so I had my am-munition for my pains. But, on the whole, our ban-quets on the luxuries of the chase were few and farbetween. Strange to say, we saw but few buffaloes(properly bison), not more than a dozen or so, all few we saw near where we forded the SouthPlatte.^ A spirited chase was being given the tempt-ing stragglers, and this within plain view of our mov-ing caravan. The spectacle was rendered none theless inspiring from the circumstance that a lad^ mount-ed on a fleet steed was one of the party making thepursuit. 1 The w^riter ^as privileged, nearly thirtj years later, ^vhen steamingdown the Missouri River through the Bad Lands, to witness those noblebeasts in their \vonted glory. It was in August, and they were on theirnorthward run. The steamer w^as several days in passing through their scat-tered bands, gr ups of which were well-nigh constantly in sigh
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