Last of the " Buffalo."
Practically the United States has seen the last of the "buffalo," or, more strictly, the " bison," who plays so conspicuous a part in tho prairie romances of Fenimore Cooper. According to Mi- Griunell's article in the new number of the Scribner, the last straggling bull has now disappeared from the prairiea, and if specimens are found in the Yellowstone National Park, it is only because there they are a curiosity of natural history which the Government protects from destruction. These are " mountain buffalo," and from their habit of living in the thick timber and on the rough mountain sides, • they are Only now and then seen by visitors to the Park. They were last winter estimated at not less than four hundred. In. the far north-west, in the Peace River District, there may still be found a few wood buffalo. Estimates of their number, however, can only be mere guesses, since they are scattered over many thousand square miles of territory which is without inhabitants, and for the most part unexplored.
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Manawatu Herald, 29 October 1892, Page 3
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175Last of the " Buffalo." Manawatu Herald, 29 October 1892, Page 3
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