CHAPTER VII. 



MORE ABOUT CATTLE-LANDS. 



Interesting Letters — The Testimony of Generals Reynolds, 

 Myers, and Bradley, Edward Creighton, Alexander Street, 

 and Governors McCook and Campbell — The Future of the 

 Plains. 



This chapter is a continuation of the subject-matter 

 treated in my last. I will proceed by giving an extract 

 from General Reynolds's " Explorations of the Yellow- 

 stone," pages 74 and 75 : 



" Through the whole of the season's march the sub- 

 sistence of our animals had been obtained by grazing 

 after we had reached camp in the afternoon, and for an 

 hour or two between the dawn of day and our time of 

 starting. The consequence was that when we reached 

 our winter quarters there were but few animals in the 

 train that were in a condition to have continued the 

 march without a generous diet. Poorer or more broken- 

 down creatures it would be difficult to find. They were 

 at once driven up the valley of Deer Creek, and herded 

 during the day and brought to camp and kept in a 

 corral through the night. In the spring all were in as 

 fine condition for commencing another season's work as 

 could be desired. A greater change in their appear- 

 ance could not have been produced, even if they had 

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