THE BUFFALO 
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park and garden contains as many head as it 
can properly accommodate. It is useless to give 
a list of these animals, because owners and fig- 
ures are constantly changing. 
The Buffalo breeds readily in captivity, and 
is easily cared for. The majority of captive 
animals are reasonably tractable, but occasion- 
ally an individual becomes savage and danger- 
ous, and requires either solitary confinement or 
contains one hundred and twenty-eight head of 
pure-blood animals, and the number is steadily 
increasing. The largest herd on public exhibition 
is that of the New York Zoological Park, which 
in 1903 contained thirty-four head of pure-breed 
animals representing all ages, presented by the 
Hon. William C. Whitney from his October 
Mountain preserve. 
The value of a full-grown Buffalo cow in New 
E. R. Sanborn, Photo. 
AMERICAN BISON, OR BUFFALO. 
An adult male, “ Apache,” of the Whitney herd. Photographed in the New York Zoological Park, near the end 
of the shedding season. 
shooting. The best place in which to exhibit 
a savage Buffalo is a museum. Full-grown 
males must be watched closely for signs of per- 
manent ill temper, and a savage Buffalo should 
be treated the same as a tiger. Frequently the 
first serious sign of danger in a Buffalo is the 
murder of a weaker member of the herd. 
The largest herd in a fenced game preserve 
is that of Blue Mountain Park, in New Hamp- 
shire, established by the late Austin Corbin. It 
York is from $400 to $500, and an adult bull 
is worth about $100 less. Exceptionally fine 
mounted heads are worth from $300 to $500. 
The Buffalo was first seen by white men in 
Anahuac, the Aztec capital of Mexico, in 1521, 
when Cortez and his men paid their first, visit 
to the menagerie of King Montezuma. In its 
wild state it was first seen in southern Texas, 
in 1530, by a ship-wrecked Spanish sailor. The 
Buffalo once roamed over fully one-third of the 
