In Buffalo Days 



territory occupied by these continuous herds 

 was far more impressive than the spectacle 

 of a surging, terrified mass of fleeing buffalo, 

 even though the numbers which passed 

 rapidly before the observer's gaze in a short 

 time were very great. 



The former range of the buffalo has been 

 worked out with painstaking care by Dr. 

 Allen, to whom we owe an admirable mono- 

 graph on this species. He concludes that 

 the northern limit of this range was north 

 of the Great Slave Lake, in latitude about 

 63 N. ; while to the south it extended into 

 Mexico as far as latitude 25 N. To the west 

 it ranged at least as far as the Blue Moun- 

 tains of Oregon, while on the east it was 

 abundant in the western portions of New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North and 

 South Carolinas, and Georgia. In the interior 

 the buffalo were very abundant, and occupied 

 Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, 

 West Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa, 

 parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 

 the whole of the great plains, from southern 

 Texas north to their northern limit, and much 

 of the Rocky Mountains. In Montana, Idaho, 



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