38 I'lONEEE LIFE ; OR. 





on the bead waters of the Kenzua Creek. From 

 Kenzua Creek the trail continues south to the head 

 waters of Tionesta. I could not trace the elk trail 

 any further south from Tionesta than sixteen miles, 

 "but bears and deer still went south. We then went 

 north to the head waters of Kenzua, where the trail 

 of elk continued west to the head waters of Tune- 

 angwant. This river, as nearly as I can recollect, is 

 eighteen or twenty miles long. It runs into the 

 Allegany river twelve miles below Olean. One 

 mile a' ove the month of Tuneangwant was still an 

 elk trail that went to Big Yalley Creek in Cattarau- 

 gus cqrihty, Kew York. From the head waters of 

 Big Yalley to Cattaraugus Creek was from four to 

 six miles. Cattaraugus Creek empties into Lake 

 Erie twenty-eight miles southwest of Buffalo. This 

 is as far west as I know elk to range. I came down 

 tte Allegany Kiver in the year J 815, and remained 

 over night at an Indian house below Olean, near 

 where this runway crossed the Allegany. I asked 

 an Indian if he knew where there were any elk. Be 

 replied that they were very plenty on the west side 

 of the river, and some few on the head waters of the 

 Cattaraugus. I told him that I wished to catch a 

 live elk that winter, and that I had caught three, 

 each sixteen hands high. He told me that he did 

 not believe this, as they were so large and powerful 

 with such formidable horns that no white man or 

 Indian dare encounter them. 



We will now go back to the year 1799, when I was 

 seventeen years of age, and explain howl became 



