. LET US GO AFIELD 



to adorn a beef-hide shirt as the real thing to go 

 on a buckskin bridal robe. As to our big game, we 

 certainly are in other times which bring other cus- 

 toms. 



There may be a few European noblemen who still 

 think they can come to America to hunt buffalo and 

 fight Indians, but the American people have long ago 

 forgotten the buffalo. We owed this great creature 

 a better tribute. It was guide and supporter of our 

 fathers in their ways of Western expansion. Once 

 it swarmed in Georgia and the Carolinas, and it 

 was the buffalo and the elk that laid out the first 

 trails to the westward across the Appalachian 

 Divide. The Sioux Indians also used to live in 

 that same country, though not everyone knows that, 

 or even that they later lived in Kentucky, and in 

 Minnesota until the Chippewas drove them west- 

 ward to the Plains. The first expansionists were 

 perhaps the Sioux, and they followed the buffalo 

 trails to the westward, the same trails later taken by 

 Daniel Boone and his like. 



When the settlers reached Kentucky the buffalo 

 began to disappear. They disappeared next from 

 Missouri, though no less a person than Kit Carson 

 hunted buffalo in Missouri, and hunted them with 

 the Sioux Indians at that. But when the Carsons 

 and Boones came to the great river of conquest, the 



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