Preface 



Legislature, introduced and carried through 

 the measure which put an end to this slaugh- 

 ter. A paper from the pen of this member 

 will be found in the present volume. For 

 many years attempts had been made to stop 

 hounding, and once a law forbidding it was 

 enacted, but the influence of the hotels and of 

 a certain portion of the Adirondack guides 

 was too strong to be permanently overcome 

 until the Boone and Crockett Club took hold 

 of the matter. 



In Captain Anderson's paper, in the club's 

 last volume, entitled "Yellowstone Park Pro- 

 tection," the history of the destruction of the 

 Park herd of buffalo was fully given, but the 

 number of these animals remaining in the 

 Park could only be conjectured. Recent esti- 

 mates based on animals and tracks seen last 

 winter, seem to justify the conclusion that the 

 buffalo left alive there number between twenty- 

 five and fifty. Probably there are between 

 thirty and forty. They are badly scattered, 

 and, even under the most favorable circum- 

 stances, their increase must be very slow. 



The two earlier volumes of the club's pub- 

 lication, though devoted chiefly to accounts of 

 hunting adventure, contain also considerable 



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