94 Fretp Museum or Natura History — Zooétocy, Vor. XI. 
date. He says: ‘‘When the last buffalo, Bos Americanus, crossed the 
Mississippi is not precisely known. Governor Dodge told me that 
buffalo were killed on the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix river the 
next year after the close of the Black Hawk war, which would be in 
1833” (I. ¢., p. 256). Sibley states in Schoolcraft’s Indians that two 
Buffalo were killed in 1832 by Sioux Indians on the Trempeleau River 
in upper Wisconsin. 
A letter received from Mr. E. J. Chansler of Bicknell, Knox County,’ 
Indiana, contains some interesting notes concerning the occurrence of 
Buffalo in that locality in early days. He writes, ‘‘Mr. John G. Bailey 
(ex County recorder) told me that his grandfather came to Vincennes 
in 1800 and that his father was six years old when he came, and that his 
father could have killed Buffalo just east of town, when he got old 
enough to hunt,but was afraid to shoot them. This would perhaps 
place the last date for Buffalo in Knox County or Indiana at about 
1810 or 1812. 
‘Mr. Brad Thompson told me his father claims to have seen Buffalo 
in 1808 in Knox County. 
“Mr. Felix Boushie told me that his wife’s grandfather, Tony Rush- 
ville, killed a Buffalo cow and calf 5 miles south of Vincennes on the 
Wabash in 1800. 
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United States, In western Canada its range extended northward at least as far as Great Slave Lake. 
Compiled from maps given by Dr. J.A. Allen, monograph of the American Bison; Dr. W. T. 
Hornaday, Extermination of the American Bison; Mr. E. T. Seton, Life Histories of Northern Animals, 
together with records by various early writers. 
a * Knox County, Indiana, is separated from Lawrence Co., Illinois, by the Wabash 
iver. 
