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these settlers hastened its demise, exterminating the bison in Maryland 

 by 1775. The Glades Star (publication of the Garrett County Histori- 

 cal Society) for 1943, says that around 1774 one of the Ashbys (early 

 settlers in the Glades of Garrett County) and a neighbor were search- 

 ing for the neighbor's cows one day in early winter. They followed 

 the tracks of some animals in the light snow^ until they came to what 

 is now the J. J. Ashby farm, when Ashby saw a bunch of wooly hair 

 on a snag. Following the trail still farther to the hill southeast of the 

 present town of Grellin, they spotted 4 bison. They shot the bulls 

 and the cows escaped westward. These were the last seen in the Glades, 

 and probably the last of Maryland's bison herd. 



The former occurrence of the bison is still indicated by such place 

 names as: Buffalo Road (Carroll and Frederick Counties) ; Buffalo 

 Eun, Little Buffalo Run, and Buffalo Marsh (Garrett County). 



Mansueti (1950) lists 2 additional species (fisher, Maries pennanti; 

 and Canada lynx. Lynx canadensis) that may have occurred in Mary- 

 land in the past but are not presently a part of the fauna of the State. 

 There is no good evidence, however, that either of these species ever 

 ranged as far south as Maryland. 



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