NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS 
The hide hunters were already among them, and this was one of 
the years of their greatest havoc. Three years later these same 
plains were covered with the bleaching carcasses of these hundreds 
STONE MOUNTAIN-SHEEP (OVIS STONE!) 
Mounted specimen in American Museum 
(From Bulletin American Museum, Vol. TX, 1897, pl. ii) 
of thousands of Bisons, from which merely the hides had been 
removed and the bodies left to rot. In 1873 similar scenes were 
witnessed in the valley of the Yellowstone, and here again, a 
few years later, only the carcasses of dead Buffaloes remained, 
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