American Big-Game Hunting 



the Custer fight in 1876, told me of the death 

 of a hunting partner of his, which shows how 

 dangerous even a dying buffalo may be. 

 The two men had started from the railroad 

 to go south and bring in a load of meat. On 

 finding a bunch of buffalo, they shot down by 

 stalking what they required, and then on 

 foot went up to the animals to skin them. 

 One cow, lying on her side, was still moving 

 a little convulsively, but dying. The man 

 approached her as if about to cut her throat, 

 but when he was within a few feet of her 

 head, she sprang to her feet, rushed at him, 

 struck him in the chest with her horns, and 

 then fell dead. Charley ran up to his part- 

 ner, and to his horror saw that the cow's 

 horn had ripped him up from the belly to the 

 throat, so that he could see the heart still 

 expanding and contracting. 



Charley buried his partner there, and re- 

 turning to the town, told his story. He was 

 at once arrested on the charge that he had 

 murdered his companion, and was obliged to 

 return to the place and to assist in digging 

 up the body to satisfy the suspicious officials 

 of the truth of his statements. 

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