CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOD. 9I 



bodies nearly e iten up by wolv^es before they 

 were discovered. 



A short time after this niyseh' and my son 

 went out one morning and got after two buf- 

 falo cows, and followed them about twelve 

 miles before we got them. We were then 

 within about six miles of Silver Lake, and 

 started for that point. It suddenl}' began to 

 turn fiercely cold, and I began to expect a 

 blizzard, so we hurried on toward the lake 

 and our camp, and when about a mile from our 

 halting place, and the sun almost down and 

 the cold increasing, I saw, about a mile and a 

 half to my left, a very large herd of buffalo. 

 I think there must have been two thousand of 

 .them, and 1 was anxious to get at them, but 

 as it was so frightfully cold and night was fast 

 coming on, I told my boy we would go down 

 to the spring and w^ait until morning, and then 

 we would try what we could do for them. 

 About the time we lay down for the night I 

 noticed a very black cloud hanging In the 

 north, but we made extensive speculations on 

 the number of buffalo we were to get the 



