Good Hunting 



wander for years over the plains and 

 mountains and see no white faces save 

 those of their companions. 



Indeed, at that time the Little Missouri 

 was very dangerous country, as it was the 

 debatable-ground between many power- 

 ful Indian tribes, and was only visited 

 by formidable war-parties and hunting- 

 parties. In consequence of nobody dar- 

 ing to live there, game swarmed buffalo, 

 elk, deer, antelope, mountain-sheep, and 

 bear. The bears were then very bold, 

 and the hunters had little difficulty in 

 getting up to them, for they were quite 

 as apt to attack as to run away. 



But when, in 1880, the Northern Pacific 

 Railroad reached the neighborhood of the 

 Little Missouri, all this changed forever. 

 The game that for untold ages had trod- 

 den out their paths over the prairies and 

 along the river-bottoms vanished, as the 

 Indians that had hunted it also vanished. 

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