CHARGED BY A HERD OF BUFFALO 183 

 AN ORDINARY RANGE BUFFALO BULL, 



but after it he became a menace to everyone who 

 traveled in his neighborhood. Day after day One- 

 Horned Ike would post himself on the top of one 

 of the buttes and from this vantage ground scan 

 the horizon watching for his hated enemy, man. 

 Half-breeds, red men, and white men all learned 

 to look for this bull and whenever they would see 

 silhouetted against the sky, the form of a buffalo 

 with but one horn and a piece of rope attached to 

 that, they made a wide detour to escape meeting 

 One-Horned Ike, the man-hating buffalo of Horse 

 Plains. On various occasions men had gone out 

 for the expressed purpose of ridding their reserva- 

 tion of its 



DANGEROUS INHABITANT, 



but when they came back the heaving sides of their 

 horses, their wide distended nostrils, and the sweat 

 which dripped from their hides was more eloquent 

 and said more than did the horsemen. At last, 

 however, an Indian took his rifle and by worm- 

 ing his way through the grass, he gained a posi- 

 tion from which he could draw a bead on One- 

 Horned Ike and this ended the days of the man- 

 hating buffalo. 



When we Americans allowed 



THE PABLO ALLARD HERD OF BUFFALO 

 of the Flathead Reservation to be sold to Canada, 



