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interesting to throwa glance: backward through the last twenty years, and 
give some-account of their former distribution through the country, and the 
i vectors western range. — 
F ion is. derived: — from Mr, Fitzpatrick, supported 
bysmy own personal knowledge and acquaintance with the country, Our 
knowle does not: go farther ——— the: ‘spring of 1924, at which time 
the buffalo we the Green river and Bear 
* “river valleys, and through: all: the country lying between the Colaratl, or 
Green river of the gulf of a and Lewis’s fork of the or 
river; the meridian of Fort Hall then forming the a of th 
eee and 
down) the valley of the Columbia, on sides of the’ 
Fishing falis.. Below this point they never r dedtondea® 
About» the year 1834 or 1835 they began to diminish 
very’ tapidly, and continued to decrease until 1838 or 1840, when, with the 
country; we have: just. described; they entirely abandoned all the waters of 
the Pacific north of Lewis’s fork of the Columbia. At that time,the Flat- 
head Indians were inthe habit of finding their buffalo on the heads of Sal- 
mon Tiver, and other streams of the Columbia; but now they never meet — 
with them farther west than the three forks of the Missouri or the plains 
of the ¥ellowstone: river. 
| diate’ _- toni 
beauty’ ofthat country, whieh bears marks of,having long ben ate oF ta aay 
favorite: by the: fact that the white hunters have more frequent- 
5 isin dial thie than’the s it being north of the South Pass. 
that the hun trappers, and trad ¢, have had their rendezvous for many 
past; and ‘fromthat section also the greater portion of the beaver and 
favttes ‘were taken, although | always the most dangerous as well as the 
In that region lying between the Green or ends river and the head” 
waters of the Rio del Norte, over the Yampah, Kooyah, White, and Grand 
rivers—all-of which are the waters of the Coleiadis ithe buffale never ex- 
tended se far to the westward as they did on the waters of the Columbia; 
__ andbonly:in one: ortwo-instances have they been known to descend ie far “ 
ugh untry west 
west as the eS ee seg ‘through the co 
“the Rocky mout servation rez ‘me to the impre: 
er ae ssed that range to the wat 
e pe ‘are col ering 5 
m sustained by Mr. oe re and os p 
all the Soiieg ee upon 
ters,are found in the prec highways, continuous for hun- 
a hes and sometimes several feet in depth, 
have made in cfossing from one river to bape oe 
iin ranges. The Snake seen ve more par r 
