American Big-Game Hunting 
The buffalo was a timid creature, but 
brought to bay would fight with ferocity. 
There were few sights more terrifying to the 
novice than the spectacle of an old bull at 
bay: his mighty bulk, a quivering mass of 
active, enraged muscle; the shining horns; 
the little, spiky tail; and the eyes half hidden 
beneath the shaggy frontlet, yet gleaming 
with rage, combined to render him an awe- 
inspiring object. Nevertheless, owing to 
their greater speed and activity, the cows 
were much more to be feared than the bulls. 
It was once thought that the buffalo per- 
formed annually extensive migrations, and 
it was even said that those which spent the 
summer on the banks of the Saskatchewan 
wintered in Texas. There is no reason for 
believing this to have been true. Undoubt- 
edly there were slight general movements 
north and south, and east and west, at cer- 
tain seasons of the year; but many of the 
accounts of these movements are entirely 
misleading, because greatly exaggerated. In 
one portion of the northern country I know 
that there was a decided east and west sea- 
sonal migration, the herds tending in spring 
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