. The Saturday evening post. Buffalo at Mammoth Hot Springs. Above — The Winter Range the European species of bison is not also was a grand animal, quite similar toour own. The only picture I ever saw ofthis species was that of a bull owned by theDuke of Bedford. It seems to be rangier inbuild and to have less pants and mop thanour own species. The photograph appar-ently showed the animal to have a tailmuch longer than that of our bison, andwith more hair, approximating more the tail of the domestic ox than the whimsicalcaudal appendage of our own buffalo. The forests of the great f
. The Saturday evening post. Buffalo at Mammoth Hot Springs. Above — The Winter Range the European species of bison is not also was a grand animal, quite similar toour own. The only picture I ever saw ofthis species was that of a bull owned by theDuke of Bedford. It seems to be rangier inbuild and to have less pants and mop thanour own species. The photograph appar-ently showed the animal to have a tailmuch longer than that of our bison, andwith more hair, approximating more the tail of the domestic ox than the whimsicalcaudal appendage of our own buffalo. The forests of the great feudal noblemenof Central and Eastern Europe long havepreserved the species of the Europeanbison. The Count Potocki had a famousherd, but since^the war our amiable andenlightened friends the Bolsheviki haveexterminated this historic and irreplaceableherd on the ground that if there were not. Yellowstone Park buffalo enough for allmen no man ought tohave any buffalo at similar fate met thegreat Lithuanian herd;more than seven hun-dred head had been care-fully preserved by theCzars of Russia. A Czarmay be bad enough inhis way, but a Bolshevikis worse. Between theBolsheviki and the Ger-mans, the Europeanbison now is done for. During the Great Warthe German wiped outthe great forests ofByelovitsa, and thoughthere was a pretense atprotecting the buffalothemselves, the Germansoldiers in one way oranother cut down theherd to an estimatedtotal of one hundred andeighty head. The European waralso practically finishedthe bisons of the Cau-casus. So much forBuckingham. Our Bolsheviki, ourHuns and our otherproducts of civilizationseemed to be able to complete the tale ofa general destruction. We can sum it allup and pass it all on by saying that Canadato-day is the bison center of the world, withthe United States a respectable second. Buffalo Jones Herds The Yellowstone Park her
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