HUNTING THE GRISLY. CHAPTER I. THE BISON OR AMERICAN BUFFALO. WHEN we became a nation, in 1776, the buffaloes, the first animals to vanish when the wilderness is settled, roved to the crests of the mountains· which mark the western boundaries of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the ·Carolinas. They were plentiful in what are now the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. But by the beginning of the present century they had been driven beyond the Mississippi; and for the next eighty years they formed one of the most distinctive and characteristic features of existence on the great plains. Their numbers were countless -incredible. In vast herds of hundreds of thousands of individuals, they roamed fronl the Saskatchewan to the Rio Grande and westward to the Rocky Mountains. They furnished all the means of livelihood to the tribes of Horse Indians, and to the curious 'I
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; THE BISON OR AMERICAN BUFFALO; Extermination of the bison-My brother and cousin; take a hunting trip in Texas-HardshipsHunting; on the Brazos-Many buffalo slainFollowing; four bulls-A stampede-Splitting the; herd-Occasional charges-A Comanche war; party-Great herds on the Arkansas-Adventure; of Clarence King- -The bison of the moun·; tains-At the vanishing poin t-A hunt for moun·; tain bison-A trail discovered-Skilful tracking; -A band of six-Death of the bull-A camp in thecanyon 7; CHAPTER II; THE lJLACK BEAR; Habits of the black bear-Holds his own well In; the land-The old hunters-Hunting bear with; dogs-General Hampton's hunting-Black bear; at bay-A bear catching mice and chipmunksOccasional; raids on the farmyard-Their weight; -Those I have killed • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3S; CHAPTER IlL; OLD EPHRAIM, THE GRISLY BEAlL; The king of American game-Varieties of the grisly; -Worthlessness of old h
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; THE BISON OR AMERICAN BUFFALO; Extermination of the bison-My brother and cousin; take a hunting trip in Texas-HardshipsHunting; on the Brazos-Many buffalo slainFollowing; four bulls-A stampede-Splitting the; herd-Occasional charges-A Comanche war; party-Great herds on the Arkansas-Adventure; of Clarence King- -The bison of the moun·; tains-At the vanishing poin t-A hunt for moun·; tain bison-A trail discovered-Skilful tracking; -A band of six-Death of the bull-A camp in thecanyon 7; CHAPTER II; THE lJLACK BEAR; Habits of the black bear-Holds his own well In; the land-The old hunters-Hunting bear with; dogs-General Hampton's hunting-Black bear; at bay-A bear catching mice and chipmunksOccasional; raids on the farmyard-Their weight; -Those I have killed • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3S; CHAPTER IlL; OLD EPHRAIM, THE GRISLY BEAlL; The king of American game-Varieties of the grisly; -Worthlessness of old h
