The Last of the Buffalo 



tablishing a government for the Park, and 

 since then a number of offenders have 

 been punished. This law was enacted, 

 however, too late to save the buffalo of 

 the Park ; and their numbers there are be- 

 lieved to be now very small, perhaps not 

 more than fifty. 



The principal herds of domesticated 

 buffalo in private hands in 1896 are the 

 Allard herd, which includes parts of the 

 Jones and Bedson herds, and numbered in 

 the autumn of 1895 about 200; the Cor- 

 bin herd in New Hampshire, about 75 ; 

 the Carlin herd in South Dakota, 23; and 

 the Good-night herd in Texas about 40. 

 Besides these there are, of course, the 

 buffalo at the different Zoological Gar- 

 dens in the country, which may number 

 50 or more. 



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