The Last of the Buffalo 



They found the horse and the arms, but 

 could not find the man, and could not im- 

 agine what had become of him. About 

 a year later, as the half-breeds were hunt- 

 ing in another part of the country, a cow 

 was seen which had something unusual on 

 her head. They chased and killed her, 

 and found that she had on her head the 

 pelvis of a man, one of the horns having 

 pierced the thin part of the bone, which 

 was wedged on so tightly that they could 

 hardly get it off. Much of the hair on 

 the head, neck, and shoulders of the cow 

 was worn off* short, and on the side on 

 which the bone was, down on the neck 

 and shoulders, the hair was short, black, 

 and looked new, as if it had been worn 

 entirely off" the skin, and was just begin- 

 ning to grow out again. It is supposed 

 that this bone was part of the missing 

 young man, who had been hooked by the 

 cow, and carried about on her head until 

 his body fell to pieces. 



My valued friend, Charley Reynolds, 

 who was for years chief of scouts at Fort 

 Lincoln, Dak., and was killed by the 

 Sioux in the Custer fight in 1876, told 

 me of the death of a hunting partner of 

 his, which shows how dangerous even a 

 dying buffalo may be. The two men had 



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