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Eiver, JefTersoii's Fork of Missouri, buffaloes on, 123. 

 Kooyah, buffaloes on, 122. 

 Milk, buffaloes on, 157. 



Minnesota, range of the buffalo on, in 1823, 

 143. 



Missouri, absence of buffaloes on extreme 

 head- waters of, in 1805, 122 ; first met with 

 on, bj Lewis and Clarke, in 1804, at mouth 

 of Kansas, 146 ; by Audubon in 1843 at 

 Fort Leavenworth, 146. 



Mississippi, buffaloes first seen on, 104 ; on 

 head-waters of, 103 ; absence of on lower 

 part of, in 1685, 134. 



Mobile, buffaloes on the source of, 228. 



Ohio, buffaloes in the valley of, 106. 



Peace, buffaloes on, 166, 174. 



Pecos, buffaloes on, 126, 134. 



Platte, buffaloes on, 146. 



Platte, North, do. 148 ; extirpation of buffa- 

 loes from, 149. 



Ked, of the North, buffaloes last seen on, 143, 

 144. 



Eed, of Texas, buffaloes absent from lower 



part of, in 1685, 133, 134. 

 Bock, abundance of buffaloes on, 106. 

 Salmon, buffaloes on, 121, 124. 

 Shenandoah, buffaloes on, 224. 

 Snake, country of, temporarily occupied by 



buffaloes, 122 ; buffaloes on, 123-125. 

 St. Lawrence. See St Lawrence, 

 Tatlo, remains of Bison antiquus from, 7. 

 Tennessee, buffaloes not known to have been 



found south of, 102, 114 ; on upper parts of, 



115 ; range of the buffalo south of, 225. 

 Vermilion, buffaloes on, 120. 

 Wabash, buffaloes on, 106. 

 Washita, buffaloes not found on lower part of, 



in 1685, 133. 

 White, buffaloes on, 122, 

 Wisconsin, buffaloes on, 82. 



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Yampah, buffaloes on, 121, 122, 



Yac[ui, supposed reference to buffaloes on, 127. 



Yaquimi. See Yaqid, 

 Riviere aux Bceufs, in Texas, 132. 

 Koberaul, Sir Francis, beasts found by, on the St. 

 Lawrence in 1542, 76. 



Roberts, Wm., enumeration of the animals of Flor- 

 ida by, in 1763, 101. 



Eobes, buffalo, statistics respecting the trade in, 

 185-191 ; the most important commercial prod- 

 uct of the buffalo, 195. 



Roemer, Ferdinand, on the range of the buffalo in 



Texas in 1849, 138. 

 Romans, Bernard, supposed tracks of buf^iloes seen 



by, in Florida, 97, 101 ; on the wanton destruction 



of the buffalo, 183 ; the buffalo susceptible of do-^ 



mestication, 216. 



Rosier, James, beasts found bv, in Virginia in 1603, 

 76. ■ 



Ross, Alexander, on the hunting expeditions of the 

 Red River half-breeds, 188; his account of the 

 "Buffalo Wool Company" quoted, 199; on the 



Red River half-breed buffalo-hunting expeditions, 

 108, 210, 



Riitimeyer, Prof. L., on the relationship of the re- 

 cent and extinct bisons, 20 ; comparison of B. 

 americanus with B. honasus, 42. ' 



Sabine, J., on the occurrence of buffaloes around 

 Great Slave Lakes, 166 (footnote), 



Salmon, T., on buffaloes in the mountains of Vir- 

 ginia, 85. 



San Felipe, Texas, remains of Bison latifrons from, 

 5, 8, 32. 



Saxon, Lt., on buffaloes near Fort Union in 1853, 

 157. 



Schoolcraft, H. R., on buffaloes in Minnesota in 

 1820, 104 ; range of the buffalo east of the Missis- 

 sippi in 1821, 117 ; on eastward migration of the 

 buffalo, 118; on the buffalo being unsusceptible 

 of domestication, 219 (footnote). 



Shaler, Prof. N, S., remains of Bison americanus col- 

 lected by, at Big Bone Lick, Ky., 33 ; on position 

 of do., at Big Bone Lick, 53, 118, 233 ; information 

 received from, 86, 220; on the buffixlo being 

 probably unknown to the mound -builders, 118, 

 234 ; on the time of the appearance of the buffalo 

 in the Ohio Valley, 232-236. 



Sibley, H. H., on last buffalo killed east of the 

 Mississippi, 117; buffalo-hunting in Eastern Da- 

 kota, 155 ; statistics of trade in robes, 187 ; on 

 the domestication of the buffalo, 217. 



Simpson, J. H., on buffaloes in Texas in 1849, 137. 



Simpson, Thos., on buffaloes in British America in 

 1836, 169 ; on buffalo pounds, 205-207, 209. 



Sioux Indians, their method of hunting the buffalo, 

 206. 



Skulls of extinct bisons, comparative measurements 

 of, 16, 26 ; of Biso7i americanus and B. honasus^ 4:1. 



Smith, Buckingham, reference by, to buffaloes in 

 Florida, 99. 



Smith, Capt. John, on the beasts found in Virginia 

 in 1606, 76 ; in New England in 1616, 77. 



Soule, George, statement of, respecting the finding of 

 supposed bison's teeth at Gardiner, Me., 90. 



Southern Herd, area occupied by, in 1876, 154. 



Southesk, Earl of, on buffaloes in British America, 

 170. 



St. Lawrence, early enumerations of the animals of 



the valley of, 75, 76, 80, 81, 83. 

 St. Michael's, Alaska, remains of Bison antiquus 



from, 24, 32. 

 St. Vrain's Fort, buffaloes near, 148. 

 " Stand," a, in buffalo-hunting, 212. 



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