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  Catlin's 
  "Outline 
  Map 
  of 
  Indian 
  localities 
  in 
  1833"* 
  purports 
  to 
  give 
  

   al80 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  the 
  buffalo, 
  but 
  none 
  are 
  represented 
  as 
  occurring 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  the 
  Kansas 
  and 
  Arkansas 
  Eivers 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  99th 
  meridian, 
  but 
  

   in 
  his 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  visit 
  to 
  the 
  Comanche 
  country 
  he 
  speaks 
  of 
  meet- 
  

   ing 
  with 
  buffaloes 
  about 
  forty 
  miles 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  junction 
  of 
  the 
  False 
  

   Washita 
  and 
  Jbied 
  Rivers, 
  or 
  near 
  the 
  96th 
  meridian.t 
  

  

  General 
  Doniphan, 
  during 
  his 
  march 
  in 
  1846 
  from 
  Fort 
  Leavenworth 
  

   to 
  Santa 
  Fe, 
  used 
  bois 
  de 
  vaoJie 
  for 
  fuel 
  when 
  passing 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  

   Little 
  Arkansas, 
  and 
  first 
  met 
  with 
  herds 
  of 
  buffaloes 
  on 
  the 
  Arkansas 
  

   at 
  Pawnee 
  Eanch, 
  near 
  the 
  present 
  site 
  of 
  Fort 
  Larned-f 
  The 
  previous 
  

   year 
  Lieutenant 
  J. 
  W. 
  Abert 
  found 
  them 
  as 
  far 
  east 
  as 
  97° 
  32'.§ 
  Lieu- 
  

   tenant 
  Abert 
  reports 
  meeting 
  with 
  them 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  near 
  the 
  98th 
  

   meridian, 
  just 
  west 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  found 
  them 
  in 
  immense 
  herds.|| 
  

  

  Lewis 
  and 
  Clarke, 
  in 
  ascending 
  the 
  Missouri 
  River 
  in 
  1804, 
  first 
  met 
  

   with 
  buffaloes 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Kansas 
  River, 
  but 
  state 
  that 
  they 
  

   did 
  not 
  become 
  common 
  till 
  they 
  reached 
  the 
  Sioux 
  River.^ 
  Bradbury 
  

   found 
  them 
  in 
  1810 
  at 
  Floyd's 
  Bluff. 
  Audubon 
  says 
  that 
  when 
  he 
  and 
  

   his 
  party 
  went 
  up 
  the 
  Missouri 
  River 
  in 
  1843, 
  " 
  the 
  first 
  buffalo 
  were 
  

   heard 
  of 
  near 
  Fort 
  Leavenworth, 
  some 
  having 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  before 
  been 
  

   killed 
  within 
  forty 
  miles 
  of 
  that 
  place. 
  We 
  did 
  not, 
  however," 
  he 
  says, 
  

   " 
  see 
  any 
  of 
  these 
  animals 
  until 
  we 
  had 
  passed 
  Fort 
  Croghan, 
  but 
  above 
  

   this 
  point 
  we 
  met 
  with 
  them 
  almost 
  daily, 
  either 
  floating 
  dead 
  on 
  the 
  

   river 
  or 
  gazing 
  at 
  our 
  steamboat 
  from 
  the 
  shore."** 
  

  

  As 
  early 
  as 
  1834 
  Murray, 
  in 
  his 
  journey 
  westward 
  from 
  Fort 
  Leaven- 
  

   worth 
  into 
  the 
  Indian 
  country, 
  first 
  met 
  with 
  buffaloes 
  on 
  the 
  Republi- 
  

   can, 
  tt 
  showing 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  already 
  become 
  extinct 
  or 
  of 
  uncertain 
  

   occurrence 
  in 
  Eastern 
  Kansas. 
  Fremont, 
  in 
  1842, 
  in 
  marching 
  north- 
  

   westward 
  from 
  Fort 
  Leavenworth 
  to 
  the 
  Platte 
  River, 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  the 
  

   Kansas 
  River, 
  came 
  suddenly 
  upon 
  great 
  herds 
  just 
  above 
  Grand 
  Isle, 
  

   in 
  about 
  longitude 
  99° 
  30', 
  or 
  near 
  the 
  present 
  site 
  of 
  Fort 
  Kearney. 
  

   The 
  following 
  year 
  (1843), 
  in 
  crossing 
  the 
  plains 
  considerably 
  to 
  the 
  

   southward 
  of 
  his 
  route 
  of 
  the 
  i^revious 
  year, 
  he 
  first 
  met 
  with 
  the 
  buf- 
  

   falo 
  on 
  the 
  divide 
  between 
  the 
  Solomon 
  and 
  the 
  Republican 
  Forks, 
  also 
  

   near 
  the 
  99th 
  meridian.|J 
  Emory, 
  in 
  1846, 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  the 
  

   buffalo 
  along 
  the 
  Arkansas 
  was 
  " 
  westward, 
  between 
  the 
  ninety-eighth 
  

   and 
  the 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  first 
  meridians 
  of 
  longitude." 
  §§ 
  In 
  1849 
  Stans- 
  

   bury 
  saw 
  no 
  buffaloes 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  forks 
  of 
  the 
  Platte, 
  but 
  found 
  them 
  

   in 
  abundance 
  to 
  the 
  westward 
  of 
  this 
  point. 
  Captain 
  Stansbury's 
  guide 
  

   reported 
  to 
  him 
  that 
  not 
  many 
  years 
  before 
  the 
  plains 
  somewhat 
  to 
  the 
  

   east 
  of 
  Fort 
  Kearney 
  were 
  black 
  with 
  herds 
  of 
  buffaloes 
  " 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  

   eye 
  could 
  reach." 
  |||| 
  

  

  In 
  July, 
  1853, 
  Captain 
  Gunnison's 
  party 
  first 
  met 
  with 
  fresh 
  signs 
  of 
  

   the 
  buffalo 
  on 
  the 
  Saline, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Kansas 
  near 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Sa- 
  

   line 
  ; 
  their 
  first 
  buffalo 
  was 
  killed 
  on 
  the 
  Little 
  Arkansas 
  ; 
  somewhat 
  

  

  " 
  Catlin 
  (G.), 
  North 
  American 
  Indians, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  map. 
  

  

  t 
  Ibid., 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  p. 
  46. 
  

  

  t 
  Hughes 
  (J. 
  T.), 
  Doniphan's 
  Expedition, 
  pp. 
  43, 
  47. 
  

  

  § 
  Congress. 
  Rep., 
  29th 
  Congr., 
  Ist 
  Sess., 
  House 
  Ex. 
  Doc. 
  No. 
  2, 
  p. 
  217. 
  

  

  jl 
  Notes 
  of 
  a 
  Military 
  Reconnaissance 
  from 
  Fort 
  Leavenworth, 
  Mo., 
  to 
  San 
  Diego, 
  

   Cal. 
  Congress. 
  Rep., 
  30th 
  Congr., 
  1st 
  Sess., 
  Sen. 
  Doc. 
  No. 
  7, 
  p. 
  11. 
  

  

  H 
  Expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountains, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  pp. 
  19, 
  67. 
  

  

  ** 
  Quadrupeds 
  of 
  North 
  America, 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  p. 
  50. 
  

  

  tt 
  Travels 
  in 
  North 
  America, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  pp. 
  208, 
  227. 
  

  

  tt 
  Fremont's 
  Explorations 
  during 
  1842, 
  '43, 
  and 
  '44, 
  pp. 
  18, 
  25, 
  49, 
  57, 
  109, 
  et 
  scq. 
  

  

  §^ 
  Emory 
  (W. 
  H.), 
  Notes 
  of 
  a 
  Military 
  Reconnaissance 
  from 
  Fort 
  Leavenworth 
  to 
  

   San 
  Diego, 
  Cal., 
  p. 
  16. 
  

  

  mi 
  Stansbury's 
  Expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Great 
  Salt 
  Lake, 
  pp. 
  29, 
  36. 
  

  

  