THE OX. 



Indians hunting the Bison. 





The American Bison, formerly spread over almost the whole of North America, still roams in countless 

 herds over the regions watered by the Arkansas, Platte, Missouri, and other large streams west of the 

 Mississippi. It is of powerful frame, and exceeds in bulk the ordinary race of cattle. The head is huge, 

 ponderous, and carried low. The neck, withers, and chest, are covered with a profusion of long, shaggy 

 hair, contributing to render the appearance of the animal wild arid terrible. The flesh of this animal is 

 accounted excellent, the tongue and hump being especially delicious. The chase of it is therefore assiduously 

 carried on both by Indians and whites, and the vast herds of the west are being so incessantly thinned, 

 that the time is probably not far distant when the American Bison will be as rare and as limited in its 

 range as the Bison of Lithuania. 



A Bison 



A Group of Bisons. 



