THE AMERICAN BISON IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 37 



Relative to your purchasing a few head from here for the purpose of starting a 

 new herd in the park, I beg to say that if you will advise me of about the number 

 you would want, and state how many bulls and the number of cows, I will try and 

 ascertain what price they can be purchased at. You will also advise me if you wish 

 them comparatively gentle, or if you are particular in regard to this. 



I think your idea of picking up the calves when young and placing them in an 

 inclosure where they can be handled is the proper way of domesticating them. We 

 find, however, that our buffalo are quite easily tamed, but I presume yours must be 

 much wilder than ours, for it is very easy for horsemen to ride right in among the 

 herd and corral them. 



If you were to purchase some from here, I would think it wise for you, if you wish 

 to domesticate them, to either build an inclosure that would hold them, or keep a 

 herder with them during the daytime and corral them nights, until such time as 

 they become accustomed to their new surroundings and satisfied on their new range. 



I shall be pleased to hear from you further, and any information I can furnish you, 

 will be pleased to do so. 

 Very respectfully, 



W. H. Smead. 



Maj. John Pitcher, 



Acting Superintendent, Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. 



Extract from article printed in Boston Evening Transcript, October 10, 1900, headed " The 



Bison still lives." 



The buffaloes now living are distributed as follows: 



Herd of W. C. Whitney, Lenox Park, Massachusetts 17 



Central Park, New York 4 



Van Cortlandt Park, New York 1 



Glen Island, New York 11 



Herd of David J. Gardner, East Hampton, L. I 3 



Prospect Park, Brooklyn 2 



Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 14 



Rocky Mountain Park, Banff, Canada 26 



Public parks in Colorado 3 



City Park, Winnipeg, Canada 4 



Zoological Garden, Philadelphia 15 



Elitch's Gardens, Denver 2 



Austin Corbin herd, Blue Mountain Forest, New Hampshire 98 



R. W. Rock, Lake, Fremont County, Idaho 4 



Zoological Garden, London 1 



Duke of Bedford, Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, England 12 



Other points in England 13 



Bronx Park, New York 11 



In France, Belgium, and Holland 14 



In Germany 46 



In Australia 12 



In Russia 2 



Allard herd, Flathead Lake, Montana 259 



Jones-Goodnight herd, Amstrong Countv, Tex 110 



Herd of E. E. Conrad, Kalispell, Mont .' 30 



Middle and Egeria parks, Colorado 21 



Lost Park, Colorado _ 9 



Running wild, west of Great Slave Lake, Canada 200 



Scattering 50 



Yellowstone Park 30 



Total 1,024 



Mark Sullivan. 



