BUFFALO HUNTING. 



Tin: buffalo is decidedly one of the noblest victims that 

 is sacrificed to the ardor of the sportsman. There is a 

 massiveness about his form, and a magnificence associ- 

 ated with his home, that give him a peculiar interest. 



No part of North America was originally unoccupied 

 by the buffalo. The places where now are cities and 

 towns, are remembered as their haunts ; but they have 

 kept with melancholy strides before the '* march of civil- 

 ization," and now find a home, daily more exposed and 

 invaded, only on that division of our continent west of 

 the Mississippi. 



But in the immense wilds that give birth to the 

 waters of the Missouri — on the vast prairies that 

 stretch out like inland seas between the " great lakes " 

 and the Pacific, and extend towards the tropics until 

 they touch the foot of the Cordilleras, the buffalo roams 

 still wild and free. 



But the day of his glory is past. The Anglo-Saxon, 



