The Last Pcskan 265 



of the opinion that the bison were always 

 toled into the piskun, although they were 

 finally run over the precipice where the 

 slaughter took place. 



After the Union Pacific Railroad cut 

 asunder the great herd that had ranged from 

 the Dakotas to Texas, the northern herd ex- 

 tended its operations farther to the north f 

 ranging in the summer well up through the 

 Canadian prairies toward Saskatchewan. 



These Canadian prairies are even much 

 more desolate than our own, for they are 

 less undulating and broken. They are not 

 as well-watered, and there is almost no 

 timber along the watercourses, the rivers be- 

 ing only fringed with small willows. Here 

 and there the land is dotted by a small lake, 

 but the waters of these lakes are very bitter, 

 and the shore is fringed with a salt-like 

 crust, which proclaims the water alkali 

 even before you taste it. 



The feed upon these prairies, however, is 



