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everywhere to be seen. These depressions are 

 known as "buffalo wallows." As time passed 

 the older wallows were rilled with vegetation and 

 loose soil washed from the surrounding eleva- 

 tions and a rich growth of plant life more lux- 

 urious and green than that surrounding it could 

 be found. 



One day while we were watching the little 

 group of buffalo on the divide Casper with a far- 

 away look in his moist eyes, said " I remember 

 when great herds of those noble animals roamed 

 over this very ground. It was late in the 'six- 

 ties'; a herd numbering several thousand came 

 roaring and galloping down this slope and made 

 straight for the river. As they crossed the sand 

 a white cloud of dust completely hid the leaders; 

 on they went heedlessly plunging into the 

 shallow water and were soon rapidly sinking into 

 the treacherous quicksand, others blindly fol- 

 lowed right on top of their struggling and rapidly 

 disappearing companions; then came still others 

 urged on by those immediately behind them and 

 so on until large numbers of the stupid animals 

 had thus lost their lives, in their headlong, de- 

 termined flight. The others floundering among 



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