In Buffalo Days 
territory occupied by these continuous herds 
was far more impressive than the spectacle 
of a surging, terrified mass of fleeing buffalo, 
even though the numbers which passed 
rapidly before the observer’s gaze in a short 
time were very great. 
The former range of the buffalo has been 
worked out with painstaking care by Dr. 
Allen, to whom we owe an admirable mono- 
graph on this species. He concludes that 
the northern limit of this range was north 
of the Great Slave Lake, in latitude about 
63° N.; while to the south it extended into 
Mexico as far as latitude 25° N. To the west 
it ranged at least as far as the Blue Moun- 
tains of Oregon, while on the east it was 
abundant in the western portions of New 
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North and 
South Carolinas, and Georgia. In the interior 
the buffalo were very abundant, and occupied 
Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, 
West Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, 
parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 
the whole of the great plains, from southern 
Texas north to their northern limit, and much 
of the Rocky Mountains. In Montana, Idaho, 
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