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the world, the government was obliged to reduce the buffalo meat to 

 pemmican, by drying, and furnish it to hunters and trappers of the 

 Hudson Bay region. The Canadians have been more successful in 

 popularizing the buffalo steak on the Western trains serving their na 

 tional parks. 



This keen public sympathy for the buffalo dates back to the early 

 'nineties, when Americans first became thoroughly aroused over the fate 

 of the bison. The American Bison Society, and other organizations, as 

 well as several magazines, undertook to save the buffalo from extinc 

 tion, which at that time seemed practically inevitable. The late Emerson 

 Hough, representing Forest and Stream, sent by George Bird Grinnell, 

 famous editor of that magazine, visited the Yellowstone in the dead of 

 winter in 1894, just at the time that Scout Burgess caught Ed Ho well, 

 the notorious poacher, in the act of skinning some buffaloes he had killed 

 in the park. Because of the inadequacy of the laws protecting the buf 

 falo, the only punishment that the rangers inflicted was to eject Howell 

 from the park, after which he returned to his poaching. This thor 

 oughly aroused both Grinnell and Hough. In a series of articles and 

 editorials, these two writers warned the nation of the passing of the 

 buffalo. Congress was moved to legislate in 1894 for the punishment 

 of poachers in Yellowstone. In 1901 a sum of $15,000 was set aside to 

 establish a new herd of buffaloes in that park. 



By that time, the herd in Yellowstone had been reduced by avari 

 cious poachers to twenty-two animals roaming wild in the park, four 

 held in captivity at the lake by E. C. Waters, operator of a boat line, 

 and four more at Henry's Lake, captured and saved by R. W. Rock. 

 The only other wild buffaloes were fifty animals at large in northern 

 Colorado. These were subsequently wiped out by poachers. There 

 were, however, two fair-sized herds in captivity outside the parks, one 

 in Texas, known as the Goodnight Herd, and another in Montana, the 

 Pablo-Allard Herd. The latter was subsequently sold to the Dominion 

 of Canada and established in the Canadian national parks. There were 

 a few small herds in city parks and some buffaloes running wild in 

 Canada. The total number of buffaloes in the world was estimated at 

 sixteen hundred. 



The turning point for the Yellowstone buffalo was 1902, when 

 Colonel C. J. ("Buffalo") Jones arrived in the park to serve as game 

 warden. He negotiated the purchase of eighteen buffalo cows from the 

 Pablo-Allard Herd and they were delivered at Mammoth by Howard 

 Eaton, the famous Wyoming guide. "Buffalo" Jones went to Texas and 

 brought back three bulls from the Goodnight Herd. Two calves were 

 captured from the wild herd on the Lamar River. This gave the park 

 three strains of blood for the little herd at Mammoth that grew into 



