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Indeed, as late as October, 1887, I gathered up on the open common,
within half a mile of the Northern Pacific Railway depot at the city of
Helena, the skull, horns, and numerous odd bones of a large bull buffalo
which had been killed there.

Output: [Illustration: WHERE THE MILLIONS HAVE GONE.


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Input: [Illustration: WHERE THE MILLIONS HAVE GONE.

Output:
From a painting by J. H.
Moser in the National Museum.]

Over many portions of the northern range the traveler may even now ride
for days together without once being out of sight of buffalo
carcasses, or bones.


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From a painting by J. H.
Moser in the National Museum.]

Over many portions of the northern range the traveler may even now ride
for days together without once being out of sight of buffalo
carcasses, or bones.

Output:
Such was the case in 1886 in the country lying
between the Missouri and the Yellowstone, northwest of Miles City.


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Input:
Such was the case in 1886 in the country lying
between the Missouri and the Yellowstone, northwest of Miles City.

Output:
Go
wherever we might, on divides, into bad lands, creek bottoms, or on the
highest plateaus, we always found the inevitable and omnipresent grim
and ghastly skeleton, with hairy head, dried-up and shriveled nostrils,
half-skinned legs stretched helplessly upon the gray turf, and the bones
of the body bleached white as chalk.


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Go
wherever we might, on divides, into bad lands, creek bottoms, or on the
highest plateaus, we always found the inevitable and omnipresent grim
and ghastly skeleton, with hairy head, dried-up and shriveled nostrils,
half-skinned legs stretched helplessly upon the gray turf, and the bones
of the body bleached white as chalk.

Output:
The year 1881 witnessed the same kind of a stampede for the northern
buffalo range that occurred just ten years previously in the south.


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Input:
The year 1881 witnessed the same kind of a stampede for the northern
buffalo range that occurred just ten years previously in the south.

Output:
At
that time robes were worth from two to three times as much as they ever
had been in the south, the market was very active, and the successful
hunter was sure to reap a rich reward as long as the buffaloes lasted.


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At
that time robes were worth from two to three times as much as they ever
had been in the south, the market was very active, and the successful
hunter was sure to reap a rich reward as long as the buffaloes lasted.

Output:
At that time the hunters and hide-buyers estimated that there were five
hundred thousand buffaloes within a radius of 150 miles of Miles City,
and that there were still in the entire northern herd not far from one
million head.


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Input:
At that time the hunters and hide-buyers estimated that there were five
hundred thousand buffaloes within a radius of 150 miles of Miles City,
and that there were still in the entire northern herd not far from one
million head.

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The subsequent slaughter proved that these estimates were
probably not far from the truth.


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The subsequent slaughter proved that these estimates were
probably not far from the truth.

Output:
In that year Fort Custer was so nearly
overwhelmed by a passing herd that a detachment of soldiers was ordered
out to turn the herd away from the post.


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Input:
In that year Fort Custer was so nearly
overwhelmed by a passing herd that a detachment of soldiers was ordered
out to turn the herd away from the post.

Output:
In 1882 an immense herd
appeared on the high, level plateau on the north side of the Yellowstone
which overlooks Miles City and Fort Keogh in the valley below.


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Input:
In 1882 an immense herd
appeared on the high, level plateau on the north side of the Yellowstone
which overlooks Miles City and Fort Keogh in the valley below.

Output:
A squad
of soldiers from the Fifth Infantry was sent up on the bluff, and in
less than an hour had killed enough buffaloes to load six four-mule
teams with meat.


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Input:
A squad
of soldiers from the Fifth Infantry was sent up on the bluff, and in
less than an hour had killed enough buffaloes to load six four-mule
teams with meat.

Output:
In 1886 there were still about twenty bleaching
skeletons lying in a group on the edge of this plateau at the point
where the road from the ferry reaches the level, but all the rest had
been gathered up.


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Input:
In 1886 there were still about twenty bleaching
skeletons lying in a group on the edge of this plateau at the point
where the road from the ferry reaches the level, but all the rest had
been gathered up.

Output:
In 1882 there were, so it is estimated by men who were in the country,
no fewer than five thousand white hunters and skinners on the northern
range.


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Input:
In 1882 there were, so it is estimated by men who were in the country,
no fewer than five thousand white hunters and skinners on the northern
range.

Output: Lieut.


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Input: Lieut.

Output:
J. M. T. Partello declares that "a cordon of camps, from
the Upper Missouri, where it bends to the west, stretched toward the
setting sun as far as the dividing line of Idaho, completely blocking in
the great ranges of the Milk River, the Musselshell, Yellowstone, and
the Marias, and rendering it impossible for scarcely a single bison to
escape through the chain of sentinel camps to the Canadian northwest.


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Input:
J. M. T. Partello declares that "a cordon of camps, from
the Upper Missouri, where it bends to the west, stretched toward the
setting sun as far as the dividing line of Idaho, completely blocking in
the great ranges of the Milk River, the Musselshell, Yellowstone, and
the Marias, and rendering it impossible for scarcely a single bison to
escape through the chain of sentinel camps to the Canadian northwest.

Output:
Hunters of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado drove the poor hunted animals
north, directly into the muzzles of the thousands of repeaters ready to
receive them.


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Hunters of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado drove the poor hunted animals
north, directly into the muzzles of the thousands of repeaters ready to
receive them.


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Output:
* * Only a few short years ago, as late as 1883, a herd
of about seventy-five thousand crossed the Yellowstone River a few miles
south of here [Fort Keogh], scores of Indians, pot-hunters, and white
butchers on their heels, bound for the Canadian dominions, where they
hoped to find a haven of safety.


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* * Only a few short years ago, as late as 1883, a herd
of about seventy-five thousand crossed the Yellowstone River a few miles
south of here [Fort Keogh], scores of Indians, pot-hunters, and white
butchers on their heels, bound for the Canadian dominions, where they
hoped to find a haven of safety.

Output: Alas!


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Input: Alas!

Output:
not five thousand of that mighty
mass ever lived to reach the British border line.


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not five thousand of that mighty
mass ever lived to reach the British border line.

Output:
"

It is difficult to say (at least to the satisfaction of old hunters)
which were the most famous hunting grounds on the northern range.


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"

It is difficult to say (at least to the satisfaction of old hunters)
which were the most famous hunting grounds on the northern range.

Output:
Lieutenant Partello states that when he hunted in the great triangle
bounded by the three rivers, Missouri, Musselshell, and Yellowstone, it
contained, to the best of his knowledge and belief, two hundred and
fifty thousand buffaloes.


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Input:
Lieutenant Partello states that when he hunted in the great triangle
bounded by the three rivers, Missouri, Musselshell, and Yellowstone, it
contained, to the best of his knowledge and belief, two hundred and
fifty thousand buffaloes.

Output:
Unquestionably that region yielded an immense
number of buffalo robes, and since the slaughter _thousands of tons_ of
bones have been gathered up there.


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Unquestionably that region yielded an immense
number of buffalo robes, and since the slaughter _thousands of tons_ of
bones have been gathered up there.

Output:
Another favorite locality was the
country lying between the Powder River and the Little Missouri,
particularly the valleys of Beaver and O'Fallon Creeks.


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Input:
Another favorite locality was the
country lying between the Powder River and the Little Missouri,
particularly the valleys of Beaver and O'Fallon Creeks.

Output:
Thither went
scores of "outfits" and hundreds of hunters and skinners from the
Northern Pacific Railway towns from Miles City to Glendive.


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Input:
Thither went
scores of "outfits" and hundreds of hunters and skinners from the
Northern Pacific Railway towns from Miles City to Glendive.

Output:
The hunters
from the towns between Glendive and Bismarck mostly went south to Cedar
Creek and the Grand and Moreau Rivers.


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Input:
The hunters
from the towns between Glendive and Bismarck mostly went south to Cedar
Creek and the Grand and Moreau Rivers.

Output:
But this territory was also the
hunting ground of the Sioux Indians from the great reservation farther
south.


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Input:
But this territory was also the
hunting ground of the Sioux Indians from the great reservation farther
south.

Output:
Thousands upon thousands of buffaloes were killed on the Milk and Marias
Rivers, in the Judith Basin, and in northern Wyoming.


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Input:
Thousands upon thousands of buffaloes were killed on the Milk and Marias
Rivers, in the Judith Basin, and in northern Wyoming.

Output:
The method of slaughter has already been fully described under the head
of "the still-hunt," and need not be recapitulated.


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Input:
The method of slaughter has already been fully described under the head
of "the still-hunt," and need not be recapitulated.

Output:
It is some
gratification to know that the shocking and criminal wastefulness which
was so marked a feature of the southern butchery was almost wholly
unknown in the north.


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Input:
It is some
gratification to know that the shocking and criminal wastefulness which
was so marked a feature of the southern butchery was almost wholly
unknown in the north.

Output:
Robes were worth from $1.50 to $3.50, according to
size and quality, and were removed and preserved with great care.


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Input:
Robes were worth from $1.50 to $3.50, according to
size and quality, and were removed and preserved with great care.

Output:
Every
one hundred robes marketed represented not more than one hundred and ten
dead buffaloes, and even this small percentage of loss was due to the
escape of wounded animals which afterward died and were devoured by the
wolves.


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Input:
Every
one hundred robes marketed represented not more than one hundred and ten
dead buffaloes, and even this small percentage of loss was due to the
escape of wounded animals which afterward died and were devoured by the
wolves.

Output:
After the skin was taken off the hunter or skinner stretched it
carefully upon the ground, inside uppermost, cut his initials in the
adherent subcutaneous muscle, and left it until the season for hauling
in the robes, which was always done in the early spring, immediately
following the hunt.


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Input:
After the skin was taken off the hunter or skinner stretched it
carefully upon the ground, inside uppermost, cut his initials in the
adherent subcutaneous muscle, and left it until the season for hauling
in the robes, which was always done in the early spring, immediately
following the hunt.

Output:
As was the case in the south, it was the ability of a single hunter to
destroy an entire bunch of buffalo in a single day that completely
annihilated the remaining thousands of the northern herd before the
people of the United States even learned what was going on.


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Input:
As was the case in the south, it was the ability of a single hunter to
destroy an entire bunch of buffalo in a single day that completely
annihilated the remaining thousands of the northern herd before the
people of the United States even learned what was going on.

Output:
For example,
one hunter of my acquaintance, Vic. Smith, the most famous hunter in
Montana, killed one hundred and seven buffaloes in one "stand," in about
one hour's time, and without shifting his point of attack.


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Input:
For example,
one hunter of my acquaintance, Vic. Smith, the most famous hunter in
Montana, killed one hundred and seven buffaloes in one "stand," in about
one hour's time, and without shifting his point of attack.

Output:
This occurred
in the Red Water country, about 100 miles northeast of Miles City, in
the winter of 1881-'82.


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Input:
This occurred
in the Red Water country, about 100 miles northeast of Miles City, in
the winter of 1881-'82.

Output:
During the same season another hunter, named
"Doc."


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Input:
During the same season another hunter, named
"Doc."

Output:
Aughl, killed eighty-five buffaloes at one "stand," and John
Edwards killed seventy-five.


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Input:
Aughl, killed eighty-five buffaloes at one "stand," and John
Edwards killed seventy-five.

Output:
The total number that Smith claims to have
killed that season is "about five thousand."


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Input:
The total number that Smith claims to have
killed that season is "about five thousand."

Output:
Where buffaloes were at all
plentiful, every man who called himself a hunter was expected to kill
between one and two thousand during the hunting season--from November to
February--and when the buffaloes were to be found it was a comparatively
easy thing to do.


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Input:
Where buffaloes were at all
plentiful, every man who called himself a hunter was expected to kill
between one and two thousand during the hunting season--from November to
February--and when the buffaloes were to be found it was a comparatively
easy thing to do.

Output:
During the year 1882 the thousands of bison that still remained alive
on the range indicated above, and also marked out on the accompanying
map, were distributed over that entire area very generally.


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Input:
During the year 1882 the thousands of bison that still remained alive
on the range indicated above, and also marked out on the accompanying
map, were distributed over that entire area very generally.

Output:
In February
of that year a Fort Benton correspondent of _Forest and Stream_ wrote as
follows: "It is truly wonderful how many buffalo are still left.


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Input:
In February
of that year a Fort Benton correspondent of _Forest and Stream_ wrote as
follows: "It is truly wonderful how many buffalo are still left.

Output:
Thousands of Indians and hundreds of white men depend on them for a
living.


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Input:
Thousands of Indians and hundreds of white men depend on them for a
living.

Output:
At present nearly all the buffalo in Montana are between Milk
River and Bear Paw Mountains.


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Input:
At present nearly all the buffalo in Montana are between Milk
River and Bear Paw Mountains.

Output:
There are only a few small bands between
the Missouri and the Yellowstone."


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Input:
There are only a few small bands between
the Missouri and the Yellowstone."

Output:
There were plenty of buffalo on the
Upper Marias River in October, 1882.


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Input:
There were plenty of buffalo on the
Upper Marias River in October, 1882.

Output:
In November and December there were
thousands between the Missouri and the Yellowstone Rivers.


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Input:
In November and December there were
thousands between the Missouri and the Yellowstone Rivers.

Output:
South of the
Northern Pacific Railway the range during the hunting season of 1882-'83
was thus defined by a hunter who has since written out the "Confessions
of a Buffalo Butcher" for _Forest and Stream_


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Input:
South of the
Northern Pacific Railway the range during the hunting season of 1882-'83
was thus defined by a hunter who has since written out the "Confessions
of a Buffalo Butcher" for _Forest and Stream_

Output:
(vol. xxiv, p. 489): "Then
[October, 1882]


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Input:
(vol. xxiv, p. 489): "Then
[October, 1882]

Output:
the western limit was defined in a general way by Powder
River, and extending eastward well toward the Missouri and south to
within 60 or 70 miles of the Black Hills.


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Input:
the western limit was defined in a general way by Powder
River, and extending eastward well toward the Missouri and south to
within 60 or 70 miles of the Black Hills.

Output:
It embraces the valleys of all
tributaries to Powder River from the east, all of the valleys of Beaver
Creek, O'Fallon Creek, and the Little Missouri and Moreau Rivers, and
both forks of the Cannon Ball for almost half their length.


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It embraces the valleys of all
tributaries to Powder River from the east, all of the valleys of Beaver
Creek, O'Fallon Creek, and the Little Missouri and Moreau Rivers, and
both forks of the Cannon Ball for almost half their length.

Output:
This immense
territory, lying almost equally in Montana and Dakota, had been occupied
during the winters by many thousands of buffaloes from time immemorial,
and many of the cows remained during the summer and brought forth their
young undisturbed.


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Input:
This immense
territory, lying almost equally in Montana and Dakota, had been occupied
during the winters by many thousands of buffaloes from time immemorial,
and many of the cows remained during the summer and brought forth their
young undisturbed.

Output:
"

The three hunters composing the party whose record is narrated in the
interesting sketch referred to, went out from Miles City on October 23,
1882, due east to the bad lands between the Powder River and O'Fallon
Creek, and were on the range all winter.


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Input:
"

The three hunters composing the party whose record is narrated in the
interesting sketch referred to, went out from Miles City on October 23,
1882, due east to the bad lands between the Powder River and O'Fallon
Creek, and were on the range all winter.

Output:
They found comparatively few
buffaloes, and secured only two hundred and eighty-six robes, which they
sold at an average price of $2.20 each.


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Input:
They found comparatively few
buffaloes, and secured only two hundred and eighty-six robes, which they
sold at an average price of $2.20 each.

Output:
They saved and marketed a large
quantity of meat, for which they obtained 3 cents per pound.


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Input:
They saved and marketed a large
quantity of meat, for which they obtained 3 cents per pound.

Output:
They found
the whole region in which they hunted fairly infested with Indians and
half-breeds, all hunting buffalo.


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Input:
They found
the whole region in which they hunted fairly infested with Indians and
half-breeds, all hunting buffalo.

Output:
The hunting season which began in October, 1882, and ended in February,
1883, finished the annihilation of the great northern herd, and left but
a few small bauds of stragglers, numbering only a very few thousand
individuals all told.


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Input:
The hunting season which began in October, 1882, and ended in February,
1883, finished the annihilation of the great northern herd, and left but
a few small bauds of stragglers, numbering only a very few thousand
individuals all told.

Output:
A noted event of the season was the retreat
northward across the Yellowstone of the immense herd mentioned by
Lieutenant Partello as containing seventy-five thousand head; others
estimated the number at fifty thousand; and the event is often spoken of
to-day by frontiersmen who were in that region at the time.


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Input:
A noted event of the season was the retreat
northward across the Yellowstone of the immense herd mentioned by
Lieutenant Partello as containing seventy-five thousand head; others
estimated the number at fifty thousand; and the event is often spoken of
to-day by frontiersmen who were in that region at the time.

Output:
Many think
that the whole great body went north into British territory, and that
there is still a goodly remnant of it in some remote region between the
Peace River and the Saskatchewan, or somewhere there, which will yet
return to the United States.


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Input:
Many think
that the whole great body went north into British territory, and that
there is still a goodly remnant of it in some remote region between the
Peace River and the Saskatchewan, or somewhere there, which will yet
return to the United States.

Output:
Nothing could be more illusory than this
belief.


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Nothing could be more illusory than this
belief.

Output:
In the first place, the herd never reached the British line,
and, if it had, it would have been promptly annihilated by the hungry
Blackfeet and Cree Indians, who were declared to be in a half-starved
condition, through the disappearance of the buffalo, as early as 1879.


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Input:
In the first place, the herd never reached the British line,
and, if it had, it would have been promptly annihilated by the hungry
Blackfeet and Cree Indians, who were declared to be in a half-starved
condition, through the disappearance of the buffalo, as early as 1879.

Output:
The great herd that "went north" was utterly extinguished by the white
hunters along the Missouri River and the Indians living north of it.


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Input:
The great herd that "went north" was utterly extinguished by the white
hunters along the Missouri River and the Indians living north of it.

Output:
The
only vestige of it that remained was a band of about two hundred
individuals that took refuge in the labyrinth of ravines and creek
bottoms that lie west of the Musselshell between Flat Willow and Box
Elder Creeks, and another band of about seventy-five which settled in
the bad lands between the head of the Big Dry and Big Porcupine Creeks,
where a few survivors were found by the writer in 1886.


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The
only vestige of it that remained was a band of about two hundred
individuals that took refuge in the labyrinth of ravines and creek
bottoms that lie west of the Musselshell between Flat Willow and Box
Elder Creeks, and another band of about seventy-five which settled in
the bad lands between the head of the Big Dry and Big Porcupine Creeks,
where a few survivors were found by the writer in 1886.

Output:
South of the Northern Pacific Railway, a band of about three hundred
settled permanently in and around the Yellowstone National Park, but in
a very short time every animal outside of the protected limits of the
park was killed, and whenever any of the park buffaloes strayed beyond
the boundary they too were promptly killed for their heads and hides.


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South of the Northern Pacific Railway, a band of about three hundred
settled permanently in and around the Yellowstone National Park, but in
a very short time every animal outside of the protected limits of the
park was killed, and whenever any of the park buffaloes strayed beyond
the boundary they too were promptly killed for their heads and hides.

Output:
At
present the number remaining in the park is believed by Captain Harris,
the superintendent, to be about two hundred; about one-third of which is
due to breeding in the protected territory.


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At
present the number remaining in the park is believed by Captain Harris,
the superintendent, to be about two hundred; about one-third of which is
due to breeding in the protected territory.

Output: In the southeast the fate of that portion of the herd is well known.


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Input: In the southeast the fate of that portion of the herd is well known.

Output:
The
herd which at the beginning of the hunting season of 1883 was known to
contain about ten thousand head, and ranged in western Dakota, about
half way between the Black Hills and Bismarck, between the Moreau and
Grand Rivers, was speedily reduced to about one thousand head.


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Input:
The
herd which at the beginning of the hunting season of 1883 was known to
contain about ten thousand head, and ranged in western Dakota, about
half way between the Black Hills and Bismarck, between the Moreau and
Grand Rivers, was speedily reduced to about one thousand head.

Output:
Vic.
Smith, who was "in at the death," says there were eleven hundred, others
say twelve hundred.


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Input:
Vic.
Smith, who was "in at the death," says there were eleven hundred, others
say twelve hundred.

Output: Just at this juncture (October, 1883)


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Input: Just at this juncture (October, 1883)

Output:
Sitting Bull
and his whole band of nearly one thousand braves arrived from the
Standing Sock Agency, and in two days' time slaughtered the entire herd.


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Input:
Sitting Bull
and his whole band of nearly one thousand braves arrived from the
Standing Sock Agency, and in two days' time slaughtered the entire herd.

Output:
Vic. Smith and a host of white hunters took part in the killing of this
last ten thousand, and he declares that "when we got through the hunt
there was not a hoof left.


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Input:
Vic. Smith and a host of white hunters took part in the killing of this
last ten thousand, and he declares that "when we got through the hunt
there was not a hoof left.

Output:
That wound up the buffalo in the Far West,
only a stray bull being seen here and there afterwards.


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That wound up the buffalo in the Far West,
only a stray bull being seen here and there afterwards.

Output:
"

Curiously enough, not even the buffalo hunters themselves were at the
time aware of the fact that the end of the hunting season of 1882-'83
was also the end of the buffalo, at least as an inhabitant of the plains
and a source of revenue.


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"

Curiously enough, not even the buffalo hunters themselves were at the
time aware of the fact that the end of the hunting season of 1882-'83
was also the end of the buffalo, at least as an inhabitant of the plains
and a source of revenue.

Output:
In the autumn of 1883 they nearly all outfitted
as usual, often at an expense of many hundreds of dollars, and blithely
sought "the range" that had up to that time been so prolific in robes.


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Input:
In the autumn of 1883 they nearly all outfitted
as usual, often at an expense of many hundreds of dollars, and blithely
sought "the range" that had up to that time been so prolific in robes.

Output: The end was in nearly every case the same--total failure and bankruptcy.


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Input: The end was in nearly every case the same--total failure and bankruptcy.

Output:
It was indeed hard to believe that not only the millions, but also the
thousands, had actually gone, and forever.


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Input:
It was indeed hard to believe that not only the millions, but also the
thousands, had actually gone, and forever.

Output:
I have found it impossible to ascertain definitely the number of robes
and hides shipped from the northern range during the last years of the
slaughter, and the only reliable estimate I have obtained was made for
me, alter much consideration and reflection, by Mr. J. N. Davis, of
Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Input:
I have found it impossible to ascertain definitely the number of robes
and hides shipped from the northern range during the last years of the
slaughter, and the only reliable estimate I have obtained was made for
me, alter much consideration and reflection, by Mr. J. N. Davis, of
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Output:
Mr. Davis was for many years a buyer of furs,
robes, and hides on a large scale throughout our Northwestern
Territories, and was actively engaged in buying up buffalo robes as long
as there were any to buy.


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Input:
Mr. Davis was for many years a buyer of furs,
robes, and hides on a large scale throughout our Northwestern
Territories, and was actively engaged in buying up buffalo robes as long
as there were any to buy.

Output:
In reply to a letter asking for statistics, he
wrote me as follows, on September 27, 1887:


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Input:
In reply to a letter asking for statistics, he
wrote me as follows, on September 27, 1887:

Output:
"It is impossible to give the exact number of robes and hides shipped
out of Dakota and Montana from 1876 to 1883, or the exact number of
buffalo in the northern herd; but I will give you as correct an account
as any one can.


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Input:
"It is impossible to give the exact number of robes and hides shipped
out of Dakota and Montana from 1876 to 1883, or the exact number of
buffalo in the northern herd; but I will give you as correct an account
as any one can.

Output:
In 1876 it was estimated that there were half a million
buffaloes within a radius of 150 miles of Miles City.


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In 1876 it was estimated that there were half a million
buffaloes within a radius of 150 miles of Miles City.

Output:
In 1881 the
Northern Pacific Railroad was built as far west as Glendive and Miles
City.


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Input:
In 1881 the
Northern Pacific Railroad was built as far west as Glendive and Miles
City.

Output:
At that time the whole country was a howling wilderness, and
Indians and wild buffalo were too numerous to mention.


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Input:
At that time the whole country was a howling wilderness, and
Indians and wild buffalo were too numerous to mention.

Output:
The first
shipment of buffalo robes, killed by white men, was made that year, and
the stations on the Northern Pacific Railroad between Miles City and
Mandan sent out about fifty thousand hides and robes.


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Input:
The first
shipment of buffalo robes, killed by white men, was made that year, and
the stations on the Northern Pacific Railroad between Miles City and
Mandan sent out about fifty thousand hides and robes.

Output:
In 1882 the number
of hides and robes bought and shipped was about two hundred thousand,
and in 1883 forty thousand.


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Input:
In 1882 the number
of hides and robes bought and shipped was about two hundred thousand,
and in 1883 forty thousand.

Output:
In 1884 I shipped from Dickinson, Dakota
Territory, the only car load of robes that went East that year, and it
was the last shipment ever made.


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Input:
In 1884 I shipped from Dickinson, Dakota
Territory, the only car load of robes that went East that year, and it
was the last shipment ever made.

Output:
"

For a long time the majority of the ex-hunters cherished the fond
delusion that the great herd had only "gone north" into the British
Possessions, and would eventually return in great force.


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"

For a long time the majority of the ex-hunters cherished the fond
delusion that the great herd had only "gone north" into the British
Possessions, and would eventually return in great force.

Output:
Scores of
rumors of the finding of herds floated about, all of which were eagerly
believed at first.


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Input:
Scores of
rumors of the finding of herds floated about, all of which were eagerly
believed at first.

Output:
But after a year or two had gone by without the
appearance of a single buffalo, and likewise without any reliable
information of the existence of a herd of any size, even in British
territory, the butchers of the buffalo either hung up their old Sharps
rifles, or sold them for nothing to the gun-dealers, and sought other
means of livelihood.


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But after a year or two had gone by without the
appearance of a single buffalo, and likewise without any reliable
information of the existence of a herd of any size, even in British
territory, the butchers of the buffalo either hung up their old Sharps
rifles, or sold them for nothing to the gun-dealers, and sought other
means of livelihood.

Output:
Some took to gathering up buffalo bones and selling
them by the ton, and others became cowboys.


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Some took to gathering up buffalo bones and selling
them by the ton, and others became cowboys.

Output: IV.


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Input: IV.

Output: CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BISON.


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Input: CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BISON.

Output:
The slaughter of the buffalo down to the very point of extermination has
been so very generally condemned, and the general Government has been so
unsparingly blamed for allowing such a massacre to take place on the
public domain, it is important that the public should know all the facts
in the case.


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The slaughter of the buffalo down to the very point of extermination has
been so very generally condemned, and the general Government has been so
unsparingly blamed for allowing such a massacre to take place on the
public domain, it is important that the public should know all the facts
in the case.

Output:
To the credit of Congress it must be said that several very
determined efforts were made between the years 1871 and 1876 looking
toward the protection of the buffalo.


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Input:
To the credit of Congress it must be said that several very
determined efforts were made between the years 1871 and 1876 looking
toward the protection of the buffalo.

Output:
The failure of all those
well-meant efforts was due to our republican form of Government.


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Input:
The failure of all those
well-meant efforts was due to our republican form of Government.

Output:
Had
this Government been a monarchy the buffalo would have been protected;
but unfortunately in this case (perhaps the only one on record wherein a
king could have accomplished more than the representatives of the
people) the necessary act of Congress was so hedged in and beset by
obstacles that it never became an accomplished fact.


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Had
this Government been a monarchy the buffalo would have been protected;
but unfortunately in this case (perhaps the only one on record wherein a
king could have accomplished more than the representatives of the
people) the necessary act of Congress was so hedged in and beset by
obstacles that it never became an accomplished fact.

Output:
Even when both
houses of Congress succeeded in passing a suitable act (June 23, 1874)
it went to the President in the last days of the session only to be
pigeon-holed, and die a natural death.


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Even when both
houses of Congress succeeded in passing a suitable act (June 23, 1874)
it went to the President in the last days of the session only to be
pigeon-holed, and die a natural death.

Output:
The following is a complete history of Congressional legislation in
regard to the protection of the buffalo from wanton slaughter and
ultimate extinction.


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The following is a complete history of Congressional legislation in
regard to the protection of the buffalo from wanton slaughter and
ultimate extinction.

Output:
The first step taken in behalf of this persecuted
animal was on March 13, 1871, when Mr. McCormick, of Arizona, introduced
a bill (H. R. 157), which was ordered to be printed.


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The first step taken in behalf of this persecuted
animal was on March 13, 1871, when Mr. McCormick, of Arizona, introduced
a bill (H. R. 157), which was ordered to be printed.

Output:
Nothing further was
done with it.


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Nothing further was
done with it.

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It read as follows:

_


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It read as follows:

_

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Be it enacted, etc._, That, excepting for the purpose of using the meat
for food or preserving the akin, it shall be unlawful for any person to
kill the bison, or buffalo, found anywhere upon the public lands of the
United States; and for the violation of this law the offender shall,
upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be liable to
a fine of $100 for each animal killed, one-half of which sum shall, upon
its collection, be paid to the informer.


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Be it enacted, etc._, That, excepting for the purpose of using the meat
for food or preserving the akin, it shall be unlawful for any person to
kill the bison, or buffalo, found anywhere upon the public lands of the
United States; and for the violation of this law the offender shall,
upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be liable to
a fine of $100 for each animal killed, one-half of which sum shall, upon
its collection, be paid to the informer.

Output:
On February 14, 1872, Mr. Cole, of California, introduced in the Senate
the following resolution, which was considered by unanimous consent and
agreed to:

_Resolved_, That the Committee on Territories be directed to inquire
into the expediency of enacting a law for the protection of the buffalo,
elk, antelope, and other useful animals running wild in the Territories
of the United States against indiscriminate slaughter and extermination,
and that they report by bill or otherwise.


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On February 14, 1872, Mr. Cole, of California, introduced in the Senate
the following resolution, which was considered by unanimous consent and
agreed to:

_Resolved_, That the Committee on Territories be directed to inquire
into the expediency of enacting a law for the protection of the buffalo,
elk, antelope, and other useful animals running wild in the Territories
of the United States against indiscriminate slaughter and extermination,
and that they report by bill or otherwise.

Output:
On February 16, 1872, Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill in
the Senate (S. 655) restricting the killing of the buffalo upon the
public lauds; which was read twice by its title and referred to the
Committee on Territories.


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Input:
On February 16, 1872, Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill in
the Senate (S. 655) restricting the killing of the buffalo upon the
public lauds; which was read twice by its title and referred to the
Committee on Territories.

Output:
On April 5, 1872, Mr. B. C. McCormick, of Arizona, made a speech in the
House of Representatives, while it was in Committee of the Whole, on the
restriction of the killing of buffalo.


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Input:
On April 5, 1872, Mr. B. C. McCormick, of Arizona, made a speech in the
House of Representatives, while it was in Committee of the Whole, on the
restriction of the killing of buffalo.

Output:
He mentioned a then recent number of _Harper's Weekly_, in which were
illustrations of the slaughter of buffalo, and also read a partly
historical extract in regard to the same.


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Input:
He mentioned a then recent number of _Harper's Weekly_, in which were
illustrations of the slaughter of buffalo, and also read a partly
historical extract in regard to the same.

Output:
He related how, when he was
once snow-bound upon the Kansas Pacific Railroad, the buffalo furnished
food for himself and fellow-passengers.


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Input:
He related how, when he was
once snow-bound upon the Kansas Pacific Railroad, the buffalo furnished
food for himself and fellow-passengers.

Output:
Then he read the bill introduced
by him March 13, 1871, and also copies of letters furnished him by Henry
Bergh, president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, which were sent to the latter by General W. B. Hazen, Lieut.


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Input:
Then he read the bill introduced
by him March 13, 1871, and also copies of letters furnished him by Henry
Bergh, president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, which were sent to the latter by General W. B. Hazen, Lieut.

Output: Col. A. G. Brackett, and E. W. Wynkoop.


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Input: Col. A. G. Brackett, and E. W. Wynkoop.

Output:
He also read a statement by
General Hazen to the effect that he knew of a man who killed ninety-nine
buffaloes with his own hand in one day.


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Input:
He also read a statement by
General Hazen to the effect that he knew of a man who killed ninety-nine
buffaloes with his own hand in one day.

Output:
He also spoke on the subject of
cross-breeding the buffalo with common cattle, and read an extract in
regard to it from the San Francisco _Post_.[69]


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Input:
He also spoke on the subject of
cross-breeding the buffalo with common cattle, and read an extract in
regard to it from the San Francisco _Post_.[69]

Output:
[Note 69: Congressional Globe (Appendix), second session Forty-second
Congress.]


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Input:
[Note 69: Congressional Globe (Appendix), second session Forty-second
Congress.]

Output:
On April 6, 1872, Mr. McCormick asked leave to have printed in the
Globe some remarks he had prepared regarding restricting the killing of
buffalo, which was granted.[70]


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Input:
On April 6, 1872, Mr. McCormick asked leave to have printed in the
Globe some remarks he had prepared regarding restricting the killing of
buffalo, which was granted.[70]

Output:
[Note 70: Congressional Globe, April 6, 1872, Forty-second Congress,
second session.]


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Input:
[Note 70: Congressional Globe, April 6, 1872, Forty-second Congress,
second session.]

Output:
On January 5, 1874, Mr. Fort, of Illinois, introduced a bill (H. R. 921)
to prevent the useless slaughter of buffalo within the Territories of
the United States; which was read and referred to the Committee on the
Territories.[71]

[Note 71: Congressional Record, vol.


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Input:
On January 5, 1874, Mr. Fort, of Illinois, introduced a bill (H. R. 921)
to prevent the useless slaughter of buffalo within the Territories of
the United States; which was read and referred to the Committee on the
Territories.[71]

[Note 71: Congressional Record, vol.

Output:
2, part 1, Forty-third Congress,
p. 371.


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Input:
2, part 1, Forty-third Congress,
p. 371.


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Output:
On March 10, 1874, this bill was reported to the House from the
Committee on the Territories, with a recommendation that it be
passed.[72]

[Note 72: Congressional Record, vol.


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Input:
On March 10, 1874, this bill was reported to the House from the
Committee on the Territories, with a recommendation that it be
passed.[72]

[Note 72: Congressional Record, vol.

Output:
2, part 3, Forty-third Congress,
first session, pp. 2105, 2109.


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Input:
2, part 3, Forty-third Congress,
first session, pp. 2105, 2109.


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Output:
The first section of the bill provided that it shall be unlawful for any
person, who is not an Indian, to kill, wound, or in any way destroy any
female buffalo of any age, found at large within the boundaries of any
of the Territories of the United States.


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Input:
The first section of the bill provided that it shall be unlawful for any
person, who is not an Indian, to kill, wound, or in any way destroy any
female buffalo of any age, found at large within the boundaries of any
of the Territories of the United States.

Output:
The second section provided that it shall be, in like manner, unlawful
for any such person to kill, wound, or destroy in said Territories any
greater number of male buffaloes than are needed for food by such
person, or than can be used, cured, or preserved for the food of other
persons, or for the market.


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Input:
The second section provided that it shall be, in like manner, unlawful
for any such person to kill, wound, or destroy in said Territories any
greater number of male buffaloes than are needed for food by such
person, or than can be used, cured, or preserved for the food of other
persons, or for the market.

Output:
It shall in like manner be unlawful for any
such person, or persons, to assist, or be in any manner engaged or
concerned in or about such unlawful killing, wounding, or destroying of
any such buffaloes; that any person who shall violate the provisions of
the act shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay to the United States the
sum of $100 for each offense (and each buffalo so unlawfully killed,
wounded, or destroyed shall be and constitute a separate offense), and
on a conviction of a second offense may be committed to prison for a
period not exceeding thirty days; and that all United States judges,
justices, courts, and legal tribunals in said Territories shall have
jurisdiction in cases of the violation of the law.


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It shall in like manner be unlawful for any
such person, or persons, to assist, or be in any manner engaged or
concerned in or about such unlawful killing, wounding, or destroying of
any such buffaloes; that any person who shall violate the provisions of
the act shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay to the United States the
sum of $100 for each offense (and each buffalo so unlawfully killed,
wounded, or destroyed shall be and constitute a separate offense), and
on a conviction of a second offense may be committed to prison for a
period not exceeding thirty days; and that all United States judges,
justices, courts, and legal tribunals in said Territories shall have
jurisdiction in cases of the violation of the law.

Output:
Mr. Cox said he had been told by old hunters that it was impossible to
tell the sex of a running buffalo; and he also stated that the bill gave
preference to the Indians.


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Input:
Mr. Cox said he had been told by old hunters that it was impossible to
tell the sex of a running buffalo; and he also stated that the bill gave
preference to the Indians.

Output:
Mr. Fort said the object was to prevent early extermination; that
thousands were annually slaughtered for skins alone, and thousands for
their tongues alone; that perhaps hundreds of thousands are killed every
year in utter wantonness, with no object for such destruction.


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Input:
Mr. Fort said the object was to prevent early extermination; that
thousands were annually slaughtered for skins alone, and thousands for
their tongues alone; that perhaps hundreds of thousands are killed every
year in utter wantonness, with no object for such destruction.

Output:
He had
been told that the sexes could be distinguished while they were
running.[73]


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Input:
He had
been told that the sexes could be distinguished while they were
running.[73]

Output:
[Note 73: I know of no greater affront that could be offered to the
intelligence of a genuine buffalo-hunter than to accuse him of not
knowing enough to tell the sex of a buffalo "on the run" by its form
alone.--W.


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Input:
[Note 73: I know of no greater affront that could be offered to the
intelligence of a genuine buffalo-hunter than to accuse him of not
knowing enough to tell the sex of a buffalo "on the run" by its form
alone.--W.

Output: T. H.]


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Input: T. H.]

Output:
This bill does not prohibit any person joining in a reasonable chase and
hunt of the buffalo.

Said Mr. Fort, "So far as I am advised, gentlemen upon this floor
representing all the Territories are favorable to the passage of this
bill.


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Input:
This bill does not prohibit any person joining in a reasonable chase and
hunt of the buffalo.

Said Mr. Fort, "So far as I am advised, gentlemen upon this floor
representing all the Territories are favorable to the passage of this
bill.

Output:
"

Mr. Cox wanted the clause excepting the Indians from the operations of
the bill stricken out, and stated that the Secretary of the Interior had
already said to the House that the civilization of the Indian was
Impossible while the buffalo remained on the plains.


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Input:
"

Mr. Cox wanted the clause excepting the Indians from the operations of
the bill stricken out, and stated that the Secretary of the Interior had
already said to the House that the civilization of the Indian was
Impossible while the buffalo remained on the plains.

Output:
The Clerk read for Mr. McCormick the following extract from the _New
Mexican_, a paper published in Santa Fé:

The buffalo slaughter, which has been going on the past few years on the
plains, and which increases every year, is wantonly wicked, and should
be stopped by the most stringent enactments and most vigilant
enforcements of the law.


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Input:
The Clerk read for Mr. McCormick the following extract from the _New
Mexican_, a paper published in Santa Fé:

The buffalo slaughter, which has been going on the past few years on the
plains, and which increases every year, is wantonly wicked, and should
be stopped by the most stringent enactments and most vigilant
enforcements of the law.

Output:
Killing these noble animals for their hides
simply, or to gratify the pleasure of some Russian duke or English lord,
is a species of vandalism which can not too quickly be checked.


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Killing these noble animals for their hides
simply, or to gratify the pleasure of some Russian duke or English lord,
is a species of vandalism which can not too quickly be checked.

Output:
United
States surveying parties report that there are two thousand hunters on
the plains killing these animals for their hides.


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Input:
United
States surveying parties report that there are two thousand hunters on
the plains killing these animals for their hides.

Output:
One party of sixteen
hunters report having killed twenty-eight thousand buffaloes during the
past summer.


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Input:
One party of sixteen
hunters report having killed twenty-eight thousand buffaloes during the
past summer.

Output:
It seems to us there is quite as much reason why the
Government should protect the buffaloes as the Indians.


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Input:
It seems to us there is quite as much reason why the
Government should protect the buffaloes as the Indians.

Output:
Mr. McCormick considered the subject important, and had not a doubt of
the fearful slaughter.


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Input:
Mr. McCormick considered the subject important, and had not a doubt of
the fearful slaughter.

Output:
He read the following extract from a letter that
he had received from General Hazen:

I know a man who killed with his own hand ninety-nine buffaloes in one
day, without taking a pound of the meat.


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Input:
He read the following extract from a letter that
he had received from General Hazen:

I know a man who killed with his own hand ninety-nine buffaloes in one
day, without taking a pound of the meat.

Output:
The buffalo for food has an
intrinsic value about equal to an average Texas beef, or say $20.


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Input:
The buffalo for food has an
intrinsic value about equal to an average Texas beef, or say $20.

Output:
There
are probably not less than a million of these animals on the western
plains.


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Input:
There
are probably not less than a million of these animals on the western
plains.

Output:
If the Government owned a herd of a million oxen they would at
least take steps to prevent this wanton slaughter.


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Input:
If the Government owned a herd of a million oxen they would at
least take steps to prevent this wanton slaughter.

Output:
The railroads have
made the buffalo so accessible as to present a case not dissimilar.


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The railroads have
made the buffalo so accessible as to present a case not dissimilar.

Output:
He agreed with Mr. Cox that some features of the bill would probably be
impracticable, and moved to amend it.


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Input:
He agreed with Mr. Cox that some features of the bill would probably be
impracticable, and moved to amend it.

Output:
He did not believe any bill would
entirely accomplish the purpose, but he desired that such wanton
slaughter should be stopped.


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Input:
He did not believe any bill would
entirely accomplish the purpose, but he desired that such wanton
slaughter should be stopped.

Output:
Said he, "It would have been well both for the Indians and the white men
if an enactment of this kind had been placed on our statute-books years
ago.


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Input:
Said he, "It would have been well both for the Indians and the white men
if an enactment of this kind had been placed on our statute-books years
ago.


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Output: I know of no one act that would gratify the red men more.


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Input: I know of no one act that would gratify the red men more.

Output:
"

Mr. Holman expressed surprise that Mr. Cox should make any objection to
parts of the measure.


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Input:
"

Mr. Holman expressed surprise that Mr. Cox should make any objection to
parts of the measure.

Output:
The former regarded the bill as "an effort in a
most commendable direction," and trusted that it would pass.


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The former regarded the bill as "an effort in a
most commendable direction," and trusted that it would pass.

Output:
Mr. Cox said he would not have objected to the bill but from the fact
that it was partial in its provisions.


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Input:
Mr. Cox said he would not have objected to the bill but from the fact
that it was partial in its provisions.

Output:
He wanted a bill that would
impose a penalty on every man, red, white, or black, who may wantonly
kill these buffaloes.


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He wanted a bill that would
impose a penalty on every man, red, white, or black, who may wantonly
kill these buffaloes.

Output:
Mr. Potter desired to know whether more buffaloes were slaughtered by
the Indians than by white men.


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Mr. Potter desired to know whether more buffaloes were slaughtered by
the Indians than by white men.

Output:
Mr. Fort thought the white men were doing the greatest amount of
killing.


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Mr. Fort thought the white men were doing the greatest amount of
killing.

Output:
Mr. Eldridge thought there would be just as much propriety in killing
the fish in our rivers as in destroying the buffalo in order to compel
the Indians to become civilized.


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Input:
Mr. Eldridge thought there would be just as much propriety in killing
the fish in our rivers as in destroying the buffalo in order to compel
the Indians to become civilized.

Output:
Mr. Conger said: "As a matter of fact, every man knows the range of the
buffalo has grown more and more confined year after year; that they have
been driven westward before advancing civilization."


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Input:
Mr. Conger said: "As a matter of fact, every man knows the range of the
buffalo has grown more and more confined year after year; that they have
been driven westward before advancing civilization."

Output:
But he opposed the
bill!


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But he opposed the
bill!

Output: Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, said: "I am glad to see this bill.


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Input: Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, said: "I am glad to see this bill.

Output:
I am in
favor of this law, and hope it will pass.


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I am in
favor of this law, and hope it will pass.

Output:
"

Mr. Lowe favored the bill, and thought that the buffalo ought to be
protected for proper utility.


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"

Mr. Lowe favored the bill, and thought that the buffalo ought to be
protected for proper utility.

Output:
Mr. Cobb thought they ought to be protected for the settlers, who
depended partly on them for food.


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Mr. Cobb thought they ought to be protected for the settlers, who
depended partly on them for food.

Output:
Mr. Parker, of Missouri, intimated that the policy of the Secretary of
the Interior was a sound one, and that the buffaloes ought to be
exterminated, to prevent difficulties in civilizing the Indians.


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Input:
Mr. Parker, of Missouri, intimated that the policy of the Secretary of
the Interior was a sound one, and that the buffaloes ought to be
exterminated, to prevent difficulties in civilizing the Indians.

Output:
Said Mr. Conger, "I do not think the measure will tend at all to protect
the buffalo.


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Said Mr. Conger, "I do not think the measure will tend at all to protect
the buffalo.

Output:
"

Mr. McCormick replied: "This bill will not prevent the killing of
buffaloes for any useful purpose, but only their wanton destruction.


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"

Mr. McCormick replied: "This bill will not prevent the killing of
buffaloes for any useful purpose, but only their wanton destruction.

Output:
"

Mr. Kasson said: "I wish to say one word in support of this bill,
because I have had some experience as to the manner in which these
buffaloes are treated by hunters.


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Input:
"

Mr. Kasson said: "I wish to say one word in support of this bill,
because I have had some experience as to the manner in which these
buffaloes are treated by hunters.

Output:
The buffalo is a creature of vast
utility, * *


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The buffalo is a creature of vast
utility, * *


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Output: This animal ought to be protected; * *


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Input: This animal ought to be protected; * *


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The question being taken on the passage of the bill, there were--ayes
132, noes not counted.


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The question being taken on the passage of the bill, there were--ayes
132, noes not counted.

Output: So the bill was passed.


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Input: So the bill was passed.

Output: On June 23, 1874, this bill (H. R. 921) came up in the Senate.[74]


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Input: On June 23, 1874, this bill (H. R. 921) came up in the Senate.[74]

Output:
[Note 74: Congressional Globe, Vol. 2, part 6, Forty-third Congress,
first session.


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[Note 74: Congressional Globe, Vol. 2, part 6, Forty-third Congress,
first session.

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]

Mr. Harvey moved, as an amendment, to strike out the words "who is not
an Indian.


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]

Mr. Harvey moved, as an amendment, to strike out the words "who is not
an Indian.

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"

Said Mr. Hitchcock, "That will defeat the bill.


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"

Said Mr. Hitchcock, "That will defeat the bill.

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"

Mr. Frelinghuysen said: "That would prevent the Indians from killing the
buffalo on their own ground.


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"

Mr. Frelinghuysen said: "That would prevent the Indians from killing the
buffalo on their own ground.

Output: I object to the bill.


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Input: I object to the bill.

Output:
"

Mr. Sargent said: "I think we can pass the bill in the right shape
without objection.


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"

Mr. Sargent said: "I think we can pass the bill in the right shape
without objection.

Output: Let us take it up.


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Input: Let us take it up.

Output: It is a very important one.


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Input: It is a very important one.

Output:
"

Mr. Frelinghuysen withdrew his objection.


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"

Mr. Frelinghuysen withdrew his objection.

Output:
Mr. Harvey thought it was a very important bill, and withdrew his
amendment.


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Mr. Harvey thought it was a very important bill, and withdrew his
amendment.

Output:
The bill was reported to the Senate, ordered to a third reading, read
the third time, and passed.


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The bill was reported to the Senate, ordered to a third reading, read
the third time, and passed.

Output:
It went to President Grant for signature,
and expired in his hands at the adjournment of that session of Congress.


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Input:
It went to President Grant for signature,
and expired in his hands at the adjournment of that session of Congress.

Output:
On February 2, 1874, Mr. Fort introduced a bill (H. R. 1689) to tax
buffalo hides; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


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Input:
On February 2, 1874, Mr. Fort introduced a bill (H. R. 1689) to tax
buffalo hides; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Output:
On June 10, 1874, Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Ways and Means,
reported back the bill adversely, and moved that it be laid on the
table.


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Input:
On June 10, 1874, Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Ways and Means,
reported back the bill adversely, and moved that it be laid on the
table.

Output:
Mr. Fort asked to have the bill referred to the Committee of the
Whole, and it was so referred.


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Input:
Mr. Fort asked to have the bill referred to the Committee of the
Whole, and it was so referred.

Output:
On February 2, 1874, Mr. R. C. McCormick, of Arizona, introduced in the
House a bill (H. R. 1728) restricting the killing of the bison, or
buffalo, on the public lands; which was referred to the Committee on the
Public Lands, and never heard of more.


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Input:
On February 2, 1874, Mr. R. C. McCormick, of Arizona, introduced in the
House a bill (H. R. 1728) restricting the killing of the bison, or
buffalo, on the public lands; which was referred to the Committee on the
Public Lands, and never heard of more.

Output:
On January 31, 1876, Mr. Fort introduced a bill (H. R. 1719) to prevent
the useless slaughter of buffaloes within the Territories of the United
States, which was referred to the Committee on the Territories.[75]


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Input:
On January 31, 1876, Mr. Fort introduced a bill (H. R. 1719) to prevent
the useless slaughter of buffaloes within the Territories of the United
States, which was referred to the Committee on the Territories.[75]

Output:
[Note 75: Forty-fourth Congress, first session, vol. 4, part 2, pp.
1237-1241.]


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Input:
[Note 75: Forty-fourth Congress, first session, vol. 4, part 2, pp.
1237-1241.]

Output:
The Committee on the Territories reported back the bill without
amendment on February 23, 1876.[76]


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Input:
The Committee on the Territories reported back the bill without
amendment on February 23, 1876.[76]

Output:
Its provisions were in every respect
identical with those of the bill introduced by Mr. Fort in 1874, and
which passed both houses.


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Input:
Its provisions were in every respect
identical with those of the bill introduced by Mr. Fort in 1874, and
which passed both houses.

Output: [Note 76: Forty-fourth Congress first session, vol. 4, part 1, p. 773.]


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Input: [Note 76: Forty-fourth Congress first session, vol. 4, part 1, p. 773.]

Output:
In support of it Mr. Fort said: "The intention and object of this bill
is to preserve them


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Input:
In support of it Mr. Fort said: "The intention and object of this bill
is to preserve them

Output:
[the buffaloes] for the use of the Indians, whose
homes are upon the public domain, and to the frontiersmen, who may
properly use them for food.


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Input:
[the buffaloes] for the use of the Indians, whose
homes are upon the public domain, and to the frontiersmen, who may
properly use them for food.


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Output:
They have been and are now being
slaughtered in large numbers.


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They have been and are now being
slaughtered in large numbers.


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* * Thousands of these noble brutes are
annually slaughtered out of mere wontonness.


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* * Thousands of these noble brutes are
annually slaughtered out of mere wontonness.


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Output:
This bill, just as it
is now presented, passed the last Congress.


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Input:
This bill, just as it
is now presented, passed the last Congress.

Output:
It was not vetoed, but fell,
as I understand, merely for want of time to consider it after having
passed both houses."


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Input:
It was not vetoed, but fell,
as I understand, merely for want of time to consider it after having
passed both houses."

Output:
He also intimated that the Government was using a
great deal of money for cattle to furnish the Indians, while the buffalo
was being wantonly destroyed, whereas they might be turned to their
good.


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Input:
He also intimated that the Government was using a
great deal of money for cattle to furnish the Indians, while the buffalo
was being wantonly destroyed, whereas they might be turned to their
good.

Output:
Mr. Crounse wanted the words "who is not an Indian" struck out, so as to
make the bill general.


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Input:
Mr. Crounse wanted the words "who is not an Indian" struck out, so as to
make the bill general.

Output:
He thought Indians were to blame for the wanton
destruction.


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Input:
He thought Indians were to blame for the wanton
destruction.

Output:
Mr. Fort thought the amendment unnecessary, and stated that he was
informed that the Indians did not destroy the buffaloes wantonly.


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Input:
Mr. Fort thought the amendment unnecessary, and stated that he was
informed that the Indians did not destroy the buffaloes wantonly.

Output: Mr. Dunnell thought the bill one of great importance.


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Input: Mr. Dunnell thought the bill one of great importance.

Output:
The Clerk read for him a letter from A. G. Brackett, lieutenant-colonel,
Second United States Cavalry, stationed at Omaha Barracks, in which was
a very urgent request to have Congress interfere to prevent the
wholesale slaughter then going on.


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Input:
The Clerk read for him a letter from A. G. Brackett, lieutenant-colonel,
Second United States Cavalry, stationed at Omaha Barracks, in which was
a very urgent request to have Congress interfere to prevent the
wholesale slaughter then going on.

Output: Mr. Reagan thought the bill proper and right.


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Input: Mr. Reagan thought the bill proper and right.

Output:
He knew from personal
experience how the wanton slaughtering was going on, and also that the
Indians were _not_


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Input:
He knew from personal
experience how the wanton slaughtering was going on, and also that the
Indians were _not_

Output: the ones who did it.


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Input: the ones who did it.

Output:
Mr. Townsend, of New York, saw no reason why a white man should not be
allowed to kill a female buffalo as well as an Indian.


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Input:
Mr. Townsend, of New York, saw no reason why a white man should not be
allowed to kill a female buffalo as well as an Indian.

Output:
He said it would
be impracticable to have a separate law for each.


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He said it would
be impracticable to have a separate law for each.

Output: Mr. Maginnis did not agree with him.


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Input: Mr. Maginnis did not agree with him.

Output:
He thought the bill ought to pass
as it stood.


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He thought the bill ought to pass
as it stood.

Output:
Mr. Throckmorton thought that while the intention of the bill was a
good one, yet it was mischievous and difficult to enforce, and would
also work hardship to a large portion of our frontier people.


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Input:
Mr. Throckmorton thought that while the intention of the bill was a
good one, yet it was mischievous and difficult to enforce, and would
also work hardship to a large portion of our frontier people.

Output:
He had
several objections.


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He had
several objections.

Output:
He also thought a cow buffalo could not be
distinguished at a distance.


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He also thought a cow buffalo could not be
distinguished at a distance.

Output:
Mr. Hancock, of Texas, thought the bill an impolicy, and that the sooner
the buffalo was exterminated the better.


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Input:
Mr. Hancock, of Texas, thought the bill an impolicy, and that the sooner
the buffalo was exterminated the better.

Output:
Mr. Fort replied by asking him why all the game--deer, antelope,
etc.--was not slaughtered also.


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Input:
Mr. Fort replied by asking him why all the game--deer, antelope,
etc.--was not slaughtered also.

Output:
Then he went on to state that to
exterminate the buffalo would be to starve innocent children of the red
man, and to make the latter more wild and savage than he was already.


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Input:
Then he went on to state that to
exterminate the buffalo would be to starve innocent children of the red
man, and to make the latter more wild and savage than he was already.

Output:
Mr. Baker, of Indiana, offered the following amendment as a substitute
for the one already offered:

_


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Input:
Mr. Baker, of Indiana, offered the following amendment as a substitute
for the one already offered:

_

Output:
Provided_, That any white person who shall employ, hire, or procure,
directly or indirectly, any Indian to kill any buffalo forbidden to be
killed by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished
in the manner provided in this act.


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Input:
Provided_, That any white person who shall employ, hire, or procure,
directly or indirectly, any Indian to kill any buffalo forbidden to be
killed by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished
in the manner provided in this act.

Output:
Mr. Fort stated that a certain clause in his bill covered the object of
the amendment.


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Input:
Mr. Fort stated that a certain clause in his bill covered the object of
the amendment.

Output:
Mr. Jenks offered the following amendment:

Strike out in the fourth line of the second section the word "can" and
insert "shall;" and in the second line of the same section insert the
word "wantonly" before "kill;" so that the clause will read:

"That it shall be in like manner unlawful for any such person to
wantonly kill, wound, or destroy in the said Territories any greater
number of male buffaloes than are needed for food by such person, or
than shall be used, cured, or preserved for the food of other persons,
or for the market.


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Mr. Jenks offered the following amendment:

Strike out in the fourth line of the second section the word "can" and
insert "shall;" and in the second line of the same section insert the
word "wantonly" before "kill;" so that the clause will read:

"That it shall be in like manner unlawful for any such person to
wantonly kill, wound, or destroy in the said Territories any greater
number of male buffaloes than are needed for food by such person, or
than shall be used, cured, or preserved for the food of other persons,
or for the market.

Output:
"

Mr. Conger said: "I think the whole bill is unwise.


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"

Mr. Conger said: "I think the whole bill is unwise.

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I think it is a
useless measure.


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I think it is a
useless measure.

Output:
"

Mr. Hancock said: "I move that the bill and amendment be laid on the
table.


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"

Mr. Hancock said: "I move that the bill and amendment be laid on the
table.

Output:
"

The motion to lay the bill upon the table was defeated, and the
amendment was rejected.


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"

The motion to lay the bill upon the table was defeated, and the
amendment was rejected.

Output: Mr. Conger called for a division on the passage of the bill.


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Input: Mr. Conger called for a division on the passage of the bill.

Output:
The House
divided, and there were--ayes 93, noes 48.


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The House
divided, and there were--ayes 93, noes 48.

Output:
He then demanded tellers, and
they reported--ayes 104, noes 36.


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He then demanded tellers, and
they reported--ayes 104, noes 36.

Output: So the bill was passed.


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Input: So the bill was passed.

Output:
On February 25, 1876, the bill was reported to the Senate, and referred
to the Committee on Territories, from whence it never returned.


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Input:
On February 25, 1876, the bill was reported to the Senate, and referred
to the Committee on Territories, from whence it never returned.

Output:
On March 20, 1876, Mr. Fort introduced a bill (H. R. 2767) to tax
buffalo hides; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means,
and never heard of afterward.


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Input:
On March 20, 1876, Mr. Fort introduced a bill (H. R. 2767) to tax
buffalo hides; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means,
and never heard of afterward.

Output: This was the last move made in Congress in behalf of the buffalo.


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Input: This was the last move made in Congress in behalf of the buffalo.

Output:
The
philanthropic friends of the frontiersman, the Indian, and of the
buffalo himself, despaired of accomplishing the worthy object for which
they had so earnestly and persistently labored, and finally gave up the
fight.


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Input:
The
philanthropic friends of the frontiersman, the Indian, and of the
buffalo himself, despaired of accomplishing the worthy object for which
they had so earnestly and persistently labored, and finally gave up the
fight.

Output:
At the very time the effort in behalf of buffalo protection was
abandoned the northern herd still flourished, and might have been
preserved from extirpation.


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Input:
At the very time the effort in behalf of buffalo protection was
abandoned the northern herd still flourished, and might have been
preserved from extirpation.

Output:
At various times the legislatures of a few of the Western States and
Territories enacted laws vaguely and feebly intended to provide some
sort of protection to the fast disappearing animals.


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Input:
At various times the legislatures of a few of the Western States and
Territories enacted laws vaguely and feebly intended to provide some
sort of protection to the fast disappearing animals.

Output:
One of the first
was the game law of Colorado, passed in 1872, which declared that the
killers of game should not leave any flesh to spoil.


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Input:
One of the first
was the game law of Colorado, passed in 1872, which declared that the
killers of game should not leave any flesh to spoil.

Output:
The western game
laws of those days amounted to about as much as they do now; practically
nothing at all.


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Input:
The western game
laws of those days amounted to about as much as they do now; practically
nothing at all.

Output:
I have never been able to learn of a single instance,
save in the Yellowstone Park, wherein a western hunter was prevented by
so simple and innocuous a thing as a game law from killing game.


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I have never been able to learn of a single instance,
save in the Yellowstone Park, wherein a western hunter was prevented by
so simple and innocuous a thing as a game law from killing game.

Output:
Laws
were enacted, but they were always left to enforce themselves.


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Input:
Laws
were enacted, but they were always left to enforce themselves.

Output:
The idea
of the frontiersman (the average, at least) has always been to kill as
much game as possible before some other fellow gets a chance at it, _and
before it is all killed off_!


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Input:
The idea
of the frontiersman (the average, at least) has always been to kill as
much game as possible before some other fellow gets a chance at it, _and
before it is all killed off_!

Output:
So he goes at the game, and as a general
thing kills all he can while it lasts, and with it feeds himself and
family, his dogs, and even his hogs, to repletion.


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So he goes at the game, and as a general
thing kills all he can while it lasts, and with it feeds himself and
family, his dogs, and even his hogs, to repletion.

Output:
I knew one Montana
man north of Miles City who killed for his own use twenty-six black-tail
deer in one season, and had so much more venison than he could consume
or give away that a great pile of carcasses lay in his yard until spring
and spoiled.


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I knew one Montana
man north of Miles City who killed for his own use twenty-six black-tail
deer in one season, and had so much more venison than he could consume
or give away that a great pile of carcasses lay in his yard until spring
and spoiled.

Output:
During the existence of the buffalo it was declared by many an
impossibility to stop or prevent the slaughter.


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Input:
During the existence of the buffalo it was declared by many an
impossibility to stop or prevent the slaughter.

Output:
Such an accusation of
weakness and imbecility on the part of the General Government is an
insult to our strength and resources.


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Input:
Such an accusation of
weakness and imbecility on the part of the General Government is an
insult to our strength and resources.

Output:
The protection of game is now and
always has been simply a question of money.


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Input:
The protection of game is now and
always has been simply a question of money.

Output:
A proper code of game laws
and a reasonable number of salaried game-wardens, sworn to enforce them
and punish all offenses against them, would have afforded the buffalo as
much protection as would have been necessary to his continual existence.


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Input:
A proper code of game laws
and a reasonable number of salaried game-wardens, sworn to enforce them
and punish all offenses against them, would have afforded the buffalo as
much protection as would have been necessary to his continual existence.

Output:
To be sure, many buffaloes would have been killed on the sly in spite of
laws to the contrary, but it was wholesale slaughter that wrought the
extermination, and that could easily have been prevented.


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Input:
To be sure, many buffaloes would have been killed on the sly in spite of
laws to the contrary, but it was wholesale slaughter that wrought the
extermination, and that could easily have been prevented.

Output:
A tax of 50
cents each on buffalo robes would have maintained a sufficient number of
game-wardens to have reasonably regulated the killing, and maintained
for an indefinite period a bountiful source of supply of food, and also
raiment for both the white man of the plains and the Indian.


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Input:
A tax of 50
cents each on buffalo robes would have maintained a sufficient number of
game-wardens to have reasonably regulated the killing, and maintained
for an indefinite period a bountiful source of supply of food, and also
raiment for both the white man of the plains and the Indian.

Output:
By
judicious management the buffalo could have been made to yield an annual
revenue equal to that we now receive from the fur-seals--$100,000 per
year.


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Input:
By
judicious management the buffalo could have been made to yield an annual
revenue equal to that we now receive from the fur-seals--$100,000 per
year.

Output:
During the two great periods of slaughter--1870-'75 and 1880-'84--the
principal killing grounds were as well known as the stock-yards of
Chicago.


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Input:
During the two great periods of slaughter--1870-'75 and 1880-'84--the
principal killing grounds were as well known as the stock-yards of
Chicago.

Output:
Had proper laws been enacted, and had either the general or
territorial governments entered with determination upon the task of
restricting the killing of buffaloes to proper limits, their enforcement
would have been, in the main, as simple and easy as the collection of
taxes.


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Input:
Had proper laws been enacted, and had either the general or
territorial governments entered with determination upon the task of
restricting the killing of buffaloes to proper limits, their enforcement
would have been, in the main, as simple and easy as the collection of
taxes.

Output:
Of course the solitary hunter in a remote locality would have
bowled over his half dozen buffaloes in secure defiance of the law; but
such desultory killing could not have made much impression on the great
mass for many years.


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Input:
Of course the solitary hunter in a remote locality would have
bowled over his half dozen buffaloes in secure defiance of the law; but
such desultory killing could not have made much impression on the great
mass for many years.

Output:
The business-like, wholesale slaughter, wherein
one hunter would openly kill five thousand buffaloes and market perhaps
two thousand hides, could easily have been stopped forever.


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Input:
The business-like, wholesale slaughter, wherein
one hunter would openly kill five thousand buffaloes and market perhaps
two thousand hides, could easily have been stopped forever.

Output:
Buffalo
hides could not have been dealt in clandestinely, for many reasons, and
had there been no sale for ill-gotten spoils the still-hunter would have
gathered no spoils to sell.


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Input:
Buffalo
hides could not have been dealt in clandestinely, for many reasons, and
had there been no sale for ill-gotten spoils the still-hunter would have
gathered no spoils to sell.

Output:
It was an undertaking of considerable
magnitude, and involving a cash outlay of several hundred dollars to
make up an "outfit" of wagons, horses, arms and ammunition, food, etc.,
for a trip to "the range" after buffaloes.


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Input:
It was an undertaking of considerable
magnitude, and involving a cash outlay of several hundred dollars to
make up an "outfit" of wagons, horses, arms and ammunition, food, etc.,
for a trip to "the range" after buffaloes.

Output:
It was these wholesale
hunters, both in the North and the South, who exterminated the species,
and to say that all such undertakings could not have been effectually
prevented by law is to accuse our law-makers and law-officers of
imbecility to a degree hitherto unknown.


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Input:
It was these wholesale
hunters, both in the North and the South, who exterminated the species,
and to say that all such undertakings could not have been effectually
prevented by law is to accuse our law-makers and law-officers of
imbecility to a degree hitherto unknown.

Output:
There is nowhere in this
country, nor in any of the waters adjacent to it, a living species of
any kind which the United States Government can not fully and
perpetually protect from destruction by human agencies if it chooses to
do so.


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There is nowhere in this
country, nor in any of the waters adjacent to it, a living species of
any kind which the United States Government can not fully and
perpetually protect from destruction by human agencies if it chooses to
do so.

Output:
The destruction of the buffalo was a loss of wealth perhaps
twenty times greater than the sum it would have cost to conserve it, and
this stupendous waste of valuable food and other products was committed
by one class of the American people and permitted by another with a
prodigality and wastefulness which even in the lowest savages would be
inexcusable.


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Input:
The destruction of the buffalo was a loss of wealth perhaps
twenty times greater than the sum it would have cost to conserve it, and
this stupendous waste of valuable food and other products was committed
by one class of the American people and permitted by another with a
prodigality and wastefulness which even in the lowest savages would be
inexcusable.

Output: V. COMPLETENESS OF THE EXTERMINATION.


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Input: V. COMPLETENESS OF THE EXTERMINATION.

Output: (May 1, 1889.)


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Input: (May 1, 1889.)

Output:
Although the existence of a few widely-scattered individuals enables us
to say that the bison is not yet absolutely extinct in a wild state,
there is no reason to hope that a single wild and unprotected individual
will remain alive ten years hence.


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Input:
Although the existence of a few widely-scattered individuals enables us
to say that the bison is not yet absolutely extinct in a wild state,
there is no reason to hope that a single wild and unprotected individual
will remain alive ten years hence.

Output:
The nearer the species approaches to
complete extermination, the more eagerly are the wretched fugitives
pursued to the death whenever found.


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Input:
The nearer the species approaches to
complete extermination, the more eagerly are the wretched fugitives
pursued to the death whenever found.

Output:
Western hunters are striving for
the honor (?) of killing the last buffalo, which, it is to be noted, has
already been slain about a score of times by that number of hunters.


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Western hunters are striving for
the honor (?) of killing the last buffalo, which, it is to be noted, has
already been slain about a score of times by that number of hunters.

Output:
The buffaloes still alive in a wild state are so very few, and have been
so carefully "marked down" by hunters, it is possible to make a very
close estimate of the total number remaining.


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The buffaloes still alive in a wild state are so very few, and have been
so carefully "marked down" by hunters, it is possible to make a very
close estimate of the total number remaining.

Output:
In this enumeration the
small herd in the Yellowstone National Park is classed with other herds
in captivity and under protection, for the reason that, had it not been
for the protection afforded by the law and the officers of the Park, not
one of these buffaloes would be living to-day.


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In this enumeration the
small herd in the Yellowstone National Park is classed with other herds
in captivity and under protection, for the reason that, had it not been
for the protection afforded by the law and the officers of the Park, not
one of these buffaloes would be living to-day.

Output:
Were the restrictions of
the law removed now, every one of those animals would be killed within
three months.


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Input:
Were the restrictions of
the law removed now, every one of those animals would be killed within
three months.

Output:
Their heads alone are worth from $25 to $50 each to
taxidermists, and for this reason every buffalo is a prize worth the
hunter's winning.


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Their heads alone are worth from $25 to $50 each to
taxidermists, and for this reason every buffalo is a prize worth the
hunter's winning.

Output:
Had it not been for stringent laws, and a rigid
enforcement of them by Captain Harris, the last of the Park buffaloes
would have been shot years ago by Vic. Smith, the Rea Brothers, and
other hunters, of whom there is always an able contingent around the
Park.


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Had it not been for stringent laws, and a rigid
enforcement of them by Captain Harris, the last of the Park buffaloes
would have been shot years ago by Vic. Smith, the Rea Brothers, and
other hunters, of whom there is always an able contingent around the
Park.

Output:
In the United States the death of a buffalo is now such an event that it
is immediately chronicled by the Associated Press and telegraphed all
over the country.


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In the United States the death of a buffalo is now such an event that it
is immediately chronicled by the Associated Press and telegraphed all
over the country.

Output:
By reason of this, and from information already in
hand, we are able to arrive at a very fair understanding of the present
condition of the species in a wild state.


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By reason of this, and from information already in
hand, we are able to arrive at a very fair understanding of the present
condition of the species in a wild state.

Output:
In December, 1886, the Smithsonian expedition left about fifteen
buffaloes alive in the bad lands of the Missouri-Yellowstone divide, at
the head of Big Porcupine Creek.


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Input:
In December, 1886, the Smithsonian expedition left about fifteen
buffaloes alive in the bad lands of the Missouri-Yellowstone divide, at
the head of Big Porcupine Creek.

Output:
In 1887 three of these were killed by
cowboys, and in 1888 two more, the last death recorded being that of an
old bull killed near Billings.


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In 1887 three of these were killed by
cowboys, and in 1888 two more, the last death recorded being that of an
old bull killed near Billings.

Output:
There are probably eight or ten
stragglers still remaining in that region, hiding in the wildest and
most broken tracts of the bad lands, as far as possible from the cattle
ranches, and where even cowboys seldom go save on a round-up.


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There are probably eight or ten
stragglers still remaining in that region, hiding in the wildest and
most broken tracts of the bad lands, as far as possible from the cattle
ranches, and where even cowboys seldom go save on a round-up.

Output:
From the
fact that no other buffaloes, at least so far as can be learned, have
been killed in Montana during the last two years, I am convinced that
the bunch referred to are the last representatives of the species
remaining in Montana.


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Input:
From the
fact that no other buffaloes, at least so far as can be learned, have
been killed in Montana during the last two years, I am convinced that
the bunch referred to are the last representatives of the species
remaining in Montana.

Output:
In the spring of 1886 Mr. B. C. Winston, while on a hunting trip about
75 miles west of Grand Rapids, Dakota, saw seven buffaloes--five adult
animals and two calves; of which he killed one, a large bull, and caught
a calf alive.


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In the spring of 1886 Mr. B. C. Winston, while on a hunting trip about
75 miles west of Grand Rapids, Dakota, saw seven buffaloes--five adult
animals and two calves; of which he killed one, a large bull, and caught
a calf alive.

Output:
On September 11, 1888, a solitary bull was killed 3 miles
from the town of Oakes, in Dickey County.


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Input:
On September 11, 1888, a solitary bull was killed 3 miles
from the town of Oakes, in Dickey County.

Output:
There are still three
individuals in the unsettled country lying between that point and the
Missouri, which are undoubtedly the only wild representatives of the
race east of the Missouri River.


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There are still three
individuals in the unsettled country lying between that point and the
Missouri, which are undoubtedly the only wild representatives of the
race east of the Missouri River.

Output:
On April 28, 1887, Dr. William Stephenson, of the United States Army,
wrote me as follows from Pilot Butte, about 30 miles north of Rock
Springs, Wyoming:

"There are undoubtedly buffalo within 50 or 60 miles of here, two having
been killed out of a band of eighteen some ten days since by cowboys,
and another band of four seen near there.


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Input:
On April 28, 1887, Dr. William Stephenson, of the United States Army,
wrote me as follows from Pilot Butte, about 30 miles north of Rock
Springs, Wyoming:

"There are undoubtedly buffalo within 50 or 60 miles of here, two having
been killed out of a band of eighteen some ten days since by cowboys,
and another band of four seen near there.

Output:
I hear from cattlemen of their
being seen every year north and northeast of here.


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I hear from cattlemen of their
being seen every year north and northeast of here.

Output:
"

This band was seen once in 1888.


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"

This band was seen once in 1888.

Output: In February, 1889, Hon.


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Input: In February, 1889, Hon.

Output:
Joseph M.
Carey, member of Congress from Wyoming, received a letter informing him
that this band of buffaloes, consisting of twenty-six head, had been
seen grazing in the Red Desert of Wyoming, and that the Indians were
preparing to attack it.


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Joseph M.
Carey, member of Congress from Wyoming, received a letter informing him
that this band of buffaloes, consisting of twenty-six head, had been
seen grazing in the Red Desert of Wyoming, and that the Indians were
preparing to attack it.

Output:
At Judge Carey's request the Indian Bureau
issued orders which it was hoped would prevent the slaughter.


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At Judge Carey's request the Indian Bureau
issued orders which it was hoped would prevent the slaughter.

Output:
So, until
further developments, we have the pleasure of recording the presence of
twenty-six wild buffaloes in southern Wyoming.


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So, until
further developments, we have the pleasure of recording the presence of
twenty-six wild buffaloes in southern Wyoming.

Output:
There are no buffaloes whatever in the vicinity of the Yellowstone Park,
either in Wyoming, Montana, or Idaho, save what wander out of that
reservation, and when any do, they are speedily killed.