In Buffalo Days 
numbered respectively 78, 50, 110, and 15. 
Besides these, a number of scattering groups 
were seen at a distance, which would bring 
the number up to three hundred. 
In the far northwest, in the Peace River 
district, there may still be found a few wood 
buffalo. They are seldom killed, and the 
estimate of their numbers varies from five 
hundred to fifteen hundred. This cannot be 
other than the merest guess, since they are 
scattered over many thousand square miles 
of territory which is without inhabitants, and 
for the most part unexplored. 
On the great plains is still found the buf- 
falo skull half buried in the soil and crum- 
bling to decay. The deep trails once trodden 
by the marching hosts are grass-grown now, 
and fast filling up. When these most endur- 
ing relics of a vanished race shall have 
passed away, there will be found, in all the 
limitless domain once darkened by their feed- 
ing herds, not one trace of the American 
buffalo. 
George Bird Grinnell. 
