APPENDIX. 



Occurrence of the Buffalo in Union Count;), Pennsylvania. — On pages 87 and 

 108 reference is made to the traditional evidence afforded by such names as 

 " Buffalo Valley " and " Buffalo Creek," of the former existence of the buffalo 

 near Lewisburg, in Union County, Pennsylvania. Through the kindness of 

 my friend, Professor C. H. Hamlin, I am now able to show that such names 

 owe their origin to the former presence of buffaloes at this locality. Pro- 

 fessor Hamlin, on writing to Professor J. R. Loomis, of the University at. 

 Lewisburg, received from him the following in reply to his inquiries. In 

 a letter dated Lewisburg, Pa., March 14, 18TG, Professor Loomis writes 

 as follows : " I have made such inquiries as I could. One man whose 

 grandfather he well remembers, as well as much of his conversation, and 

 wdio lived here one hundred years ago, never heard of the bison being 

 native of this valley. I went to see the oldest native-born citizen of our 

 town, who is now eighty-six years old. He says there were no buffaloes 

 in his early days, but it was a current notion in his boyhood days that there 



had formerly been Since writing the above I have received the 



enclosed note from Mr. Wolfe, the first gentleman referred to on the other 

 page. The information, .... coming so directly, .... is probably the 

 best that can now be gathered up." 



In the note from Mr. J. Wolfe to Professor Loomis, Mr. Wolfe states as 

 follows: '"Since seeing you this morning I have had a conversation with 

 Dr. Beck, and he informs me that buffaloes, at an early day, were very 

 abundant in this valley, and that the valley received its name from that 

 circumstance. The Doctor received his information from Colonel John 

 Kelly, who was a prominent and early settler in the valley. Kelly told the 

 Doctor that he shot the last one that was seen in the valley. Kelly 

 received his information of the abundance of buffaloes from an old Indian 



