American Big-Game Hunting 
This method of securing meat has been 
practised in Montana within thirty years, and 
even more recently among the Plains Crees 
of the north. I have seen the remains of old 
piskuns, and the guiding wings of the chute, 
and have talked with many men who have 
taken part in such killings. 
All this had to do, of course, with the 
primitive methods of buffalo killing. As 
soon as horses became abundant, and sheet- 
iron arrow-heads and, later, guns were se- 
cured by the Indians, these old practices 
began to give way to the more exciting pur- 
suit of running buffalo and of surrounding 
them on horseback. Of this modern method, 
as practised twenty years ago, and ex- 
clusively with the bow and arrow, I have 
already written at some length in another 
place. 
To the white travelers on the plains in 
early days the buffalo furnished support and 
sustenance. Their abundance made fresh 
meat easily obtainable, and the early travel- 
ers usually carried with them bundles of 
dried meat, or sacks of pemmican, food made 
from the flesh of the buffalo, that contained a 
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