Musselshell, in the cow country, but now there is 

 certainly not a head left in any one of those districts. 

 The Cree Indians came down and cleaned out the 

 last of the Musselshell band long years ago. In 

 1886, 1887, 1888, and 1889 there were a few 

 buffalo left in the Neutral Strip or the Panhandle of 

 Texas, in a very wild and desert country where 

 water is extremely scarce and where it is dangerous 

 for the unskilled hunter to venture. I saw about 

 two hundred and fifty head of buffalo in this coun- 

 try in the year 1886. That was the time of the land 

 Boom in Kansas and the advancing settlers soon 

 wiped out the last of these. There are now no wild 

 buffalo in the United States. There are a few, 

 strictly protected, somewhere in the British posses- 

 sions, indefinitely in the "Peace River District." 

 There are, of course, some few small herds of buf- 

 falo owned in different parts of the West, from the 

 Flathead reservation to Texas ; and the Yellowstone 

 Park wild herd, small and ill-thriving as it is, is all 

 that remains of the one hundred and twenty-five 

 head which was the limit a good hunter and myself 

 could assign under a fair count in the winter of 

 1894 when we snowshoed over the entire Park 

 although everybody then believed there were more 

 than five hundred in the Park. 



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