﻿ALIEN 
  1 
  EXTEEMINATION 
  IN 
  EASTERN 
  DAKOTA. 
  537 
  

  

  the 
  seasons 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  bat 
  also 
  from 
  year 
  to 
  year, 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  

   attacks 
  upon 
  them 
  at 
  new 
  localities. 
  Unless 
  legal 
  interference, 
  either 
  

   by 
  the 
  States 
  of 
  Kansas, 
  Colorado, 
  and 
  Texas, 
  or 
  by 
  the 
  General 
  Gov- 
  

   ernment, 
  be 
  speedily 
  made, 
  and 
  rigorous 
  restrictions 
  most 
  thoroughly 
  

   enforced, 
  the 
  fate 
  of 
  the 
  buffalo 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  Platte 
  will 
  be 
  a 
  repetition 
  

   of 
  its 
  history 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  River, 
  namely, 
  speedy 
  extermina- 
  

   tion. 
  

  

  Area 
  now 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  Southern 
  Herd. 
  — 
  The 
  region 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  

   Platte 
  inhabited 
  by 
  the 
  buffalo 
  is 
  already 
  reduced 
  to 
  a 
  very 
  limited 
  area. 
  

   At 
  the 
  northward 
  their 
  range 
  extends 
  over 
  only 
  the 
  head- 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  

   Republican, 
  and 
  thence 
  westwa^^d 
  to 
  the 
  South 
  Platte, 
  to 
  the 
  northward 
  

   of 
  which 
  river 
  they 
  still 
  sometimes 
  appear, 
  their 
  range 
  thus 
  including 
  

   the 
  small 
  portion 
  of 
  Southwestern 
  Nebraska 
  that 
  lies 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  Union 
  

   Pacific 
  Railway. 
  They 
  range 
  thence 
  southward 
  throughout 
  Western 
  

   Kansas 
  and 
  Eastern 
  Colorado, 
  the 
  extreme 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   Territory, 
  IsTorthern 
  and 
  Western 
  Texas, 
  extending 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  State 
  

   southward 
  to 
  the 
  30th 
  parallel, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  98th 
  meridian 
  westward 
  

   over 
  the 
  northern 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  Staked 
  Plains 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  eastern 
  

   boundary 
  of 
  New 
  Mexico. 
  In 
  1873 
  they 
  ranged 
  to 
  within 
  a 
  hundred 
  

   miles 
  of 
  Santa 
  F6.* 
  

  

  Region 
  between 
  the 
  Platte 
  River 
  and 
  Parallel 
  of 
  49°. 
  — 
  Passing 
  to 
  the 
  

   northward 
  of 
  the 
  Platte 
  River, 
  we 
  will 
  consider 
  first 
  the 
  region 
  situated 
  

   between 
  the 
  Platte 
  River 
  and 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  British 
  boundary, 
  

   or 
  the 
  49th 
  parallel. 
  The 
  buffalo, 
  as 
  is 
  well 
  known, 
  formerly 
  ranged 
  

   over 
  the 
  whole 
  country 
  drained 
  by 
  the 
  Missouri 
  and 
  its 
  tributaries, 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  over 
  the 
  plains 
  of 
  the 
  Red 
  River 
  of 
  the 
  North, 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   Assinuiboine 
  and 
  the 
  Saskatchewan. 
  The 
  plains 
  of 
  the 
  Red 
  River, 
  in 
  

   Northern 
  Minnesota 
  and 
  Dakota, 
  formerly 
  connected 
  the 
  great 
  buffalo 
  

   range 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Missouri 
  region 
  with 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Saskatchewan, 
  

   whilst 
  the 
  Grand 
  Coteau 
  des 
  Prairies 
  was 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  re- 
  

   gions 
  of 
  their 
  greatest 
  abundance. 
  Beginning 
  with 
  Eastern 
  Dakota, 
  or 
  

   that 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  Territory 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri 
  River, 
  embracing 
  the 
  

   Grand 
  Coteau 
  des 
  Prairies, 
  we 
  shall 
  pass 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  region 
  between 
  

   the 
  Missouri 
  River 
  and 
  the 
  49th 
  parallel, 
  and, 
  lastly, 
  trace 
  their 
  exter- 
  

   mination 
  over 
  the 
  vast 
  triangular 
  area 
  bounded 
  by 
  the 
  Missouri 
  and 
  

   Platte 
  Rivers 
  and 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountains. 
  

  

  Extermination 
  in 
  Eastern 
  Dakota.— 
  A^ 
  late 
  as 
  1850 
  General 
  John 
  Pope 
  

   stated 
  that 
  the 
  buffalo 
  ranged 
  "in 
  immense 
  herds 
  between 
  the 
  Pembina 
  

   and 
  Shayenne 
  Rivers," 
  and 
  were 
  "found 
  in 
  great 
  numbers, 
  winter 
  and 
  

   summer, 
  along 
  the 
  Red 
  River," 
  being 
  " 
  frequently 
  killed 
  in 
  the 
  immedi- 
  

   ate 
  vicinity 
  of 
  the 
  settlements 
  at 
  Pembina.t 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  M. 
  Rice 
  also 
  

   states 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1847 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  Red 
  River 
  hunters, 
  num- 
  

   bering 
  twelve 
  hundred 
  carts, 
  went 
  in 
  a 
  body 
  south 
  to 
  Devil's 
  Lake, 
  in 
  

   Minnesota 
  (now 
  Dakota) 
  ; 
  % 
  while 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  E. 
  Fletcher 
  states 
  that 
  twenty 
  

   thousand 
  buffaloes 
  were 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  annually 
  killed 
  in 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  

   the 
  Sioux 
  and 
  Chippewa 
  Indians, 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  British 
  

   boundary, 
  § 
  mostly 
  within 
  the 
  present 
  Territory 
  of 
  Dakota. 
  The 
  Hon. 
  

   H. 
  H. 
  Sibley 
  has 
  given 
  an 
  interesting 
  account 
  of 
  a 
  buffalo-hunt 
  in 
  East- 
  

   ern 
  Dakota 
  (then 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  Minnesota 
  Territory) 
  in 
  Schoolcraft's 
  great 
  

   work 
  on 
  the 
  Indian 
  Tribes 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  |1 
  and 
  incorporates 
  

  

  * 
  H. 
  W. 
  Henshaw, 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  to 
  the 
  writer, 
  dated 
  March 
  6, 
  1875. 
  

  

  t 
  Report 
  of 
  an 
  Exploration 
  of 
  the 
  Territory 
  of 
  Minnesota. 
  (Congressional 
  Reports, 
  

   3l8t 
  Cougr., 
  1st 
  Session, 
  Senate 
  Doc. 
  No. 
  42, 
  p. 
  27.) 
  

  

  t 
  Congress. 
  Rep., 
  3l8t 
  Cougr., 
  1st 
  Sess., 
  House 
  Ex. 
  Doc, 
  Vol. 
  VIII, 
  No. 
  51, 
  p. 
  8. 
  

  

  ^ 
  Ibid., 
  p. 
  41. 
  • 
  

  

  II 
  Schoolcraft's 
  History, 
  Qondition, 
  and 
  Prospects 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Tribes 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States, 
  Vol. 
  IV, 
  pp. 
  101-110. 
  

  

  