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were killed on the loth of August within fifteen miles of Glendive. They are most 

 numerous between the Dry Fork of the Missouri and the Yellowstone, at a point 

 about thirty miles west of Keogh. The Crows, Cheyennes, and many white 

 hunters are in full pursuit, killing and skinning these animals at the rate of 150 a 

 day. The herd is now crossing the Yellowstone into the Crow reservation ; it may 

 be for the last time, provided the Northern Pacific railroad gets through there 

 before another year rolls around. Mr. Hallock says that there are about ten 

 hunters, red and white, to one buffalo, and the race of the American bison is 

 almost run. 



Several parties of gentlemen have been, and some of them still are, hunting 

 in the Big Horn mountains, all of them without exception fitted out at Fort Custer. 

 A. M. Jameson, an Irish gentleman from Dublin, has been in the mountains for 

 five weeks, and in that time has killed twenty-nine grizzly bears. Count Andrassy, 

 a lieutenant in the Austrian service and a grandson of Count Andrassy, the states- 

 man, with a party of five other gentlemen, have also had good success in capturing 

 grizzlies, as well as numerous deer and other game. 



Jas. Lillidale, Esq., and wife, and Otho Shaw, brother of Vero Shaw, the 

 well-known dog fancier, and author of several treatises on the canine race, are 

 now in the mountains. Their sport, however, was temporarily interrupted by a 

 stampede of the pack mules, every one of which ran back to Custer and had to be 

 recovered before they could pursue their sport. 



G. O. Shields, Esq., correspondent of the "American Field," of Chicago, and 

 Mr. Huffman, the photographer of Miles City, with an outfit, had just returned 

 from a trip to the mountains when Mr. Hallock left Custer, after seventeen days' 

 absence, during which they had captured a good many photographs, some grizzlies 

 and other game. 



Mr. Hallock himself has traveled five hundred and fifty miles by wagon and 

 saddle, engaged in several hunting expeditions, outfitted at Custer, where he was a 

 guest, and among other experiences was present at the council at the Crow agency 

 for the purpose of securing the right of way through the Crow reservation for the 

 N. P. R. R. He has carefully looked the country over with especial reference to 

 the interests of the N. P. R. R. Co., reaching the extreme western end of the 

 western survey, and "will write a series of letters for the New York "Herald," 

 which we feel sure may be depended upon as an accurate and interesting account 

 of the country, its attractions and resources. Mr. Hallock took the first train in 

 from the end of the track at O'Fallon's creek, Mrs. Hallock being the first lady 

 passenger on the new extension. 



Mr. Hallock says that from Fort Custer, north to Stillwater, a distance of 

 about one hundred miles, there are many settlers, and on some portions of the 

 bottom, where there is plenty of wood and water, one is hardly out of sight of 

 fences for twenty miles on a stretch." 



In 1882 I was up Regina, Sascatchewan territory, near the terminus of the 

 new Canadian Pacific R. R., and a string of Red river carts brought in sacks of 

 pemmican for sale. That was the very last buffalo meat ever made into pemmican 

 south of the Peace river. 



Some considerable time afterwards, I think it was in 1885, I got an order 

 from Wm. T. Hornaday (then of the Smithsonian) to put him on some fine 

 game. But all we could find was half a dozen dingy old bulls in Montana dusting 

 themselves on the top of a mound. They were tearing their hair from grief. 



To hark back quite a bit. After the rifle match was won at Creedmoor, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., between the Irish and Americans, with Major Arthur B. Leach and 



