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We had a most exciting and likewise dangerous chase after the herd
through a vast prairie-dog town, honey-combed with holes just right for
a running horse to thrust a leg in up to the knee and snap it off like a
pipe-stem, and across fearfully wide gullies that either had to be
leaped or fallen into.

Output:
McNaney killed a fine old bull and a beautiful
two year old, or "spike" bull, out of this herd, while I managed to kill
a cow and another large old bull, making four for that day, all told.


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Input:
McNaney killed a fine old bull and a beautiful
two year old, or "spike" bull, out of this herd, while I managed to kill
a cow and another large old bull, making four for that day, all told.

Output:
This herd of fourteen head was the largest that we saw during the entire
hunt.


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Input:
This herd of fourteen head was the largest that we saw during the entire
hunt.

Output:
Two days later, when we were on the spot with the wagon to skin our game
and haul in the hides, four more buffaloes were discovered within 2
miles of us, and while I worked on one of the large bull skins to save
it from spoiling, the cowboys went after the buffalo, and by a really
brilliant exploit killed them all.


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Input:
Two days later, when we were on the spot with the wagon to skin our game
and haul in the hides, four more buffaloes were discovered within 2
miles of us, and while I worked on one of the large bull skins to save
it from spoiling, the cowboys went after the buffalo, and by a really
brilliant exploit killed them all.

Output:
The first one to fall was an old cow,
which was killed at the beginning of the chase, the next was an old
bull, who was brought down about 5 miles from the scene of the first
attack, then 2 miles farther on a yearling calf was killed.


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Input:
The first one to fall was an old cow,
which was killed at the beginning of the chase, the next was an old
bull, who was brought down about 5 miles from the scene of the first
attack, then 2 miles farther on a yearling calf was killed.

Output:
The fourth
buffalo, an immense old bull, was chased fully 12 miles before he was
finally brought down.


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Input:
The fourth
buffalo, an immense old bull, was chased fully 12 miles before he was
finally brought down.

Output:
The largest bull fell about 8 miles from our temporary camp, in the
opposite direction from that in which our permanent camp lay, and at
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.


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Input:
The largest bull fell about 8 miles from our temporary camp, in the
opposite direction from that in which our permanent camp lay, and at
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Output:
There not being time enough in which
to skin him completely and reach our rendezvous before dark, Messrs.
McNaney and Boyd dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, partly
skinned the legs, and came to camp.


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Input:
There not being time enough in which
to skin him completely and reach our rendezvous before dark, Messrs.
McNaney and Boyd dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, partly
skinned the legs, and came to camp.

Output:
As early as possible the next morning we drove to the carcass with the
wagon, to prepare both skin and skeleton and haul them in.


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Input:
As early as possible the next morning we drove to the carcass with the
wagon, to prepare both skin and skeleton and haul them in.

Output:
When we
reached it we found that during the night a gang of Indians had robbed
us of our hard-earned spoil.


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Input:
When we
reached it we found that during the night a gang of Indians had robbed
us of our hard-earned spoil.

Output:
They had stolen the skin and all the
eatable meat, broken up the leg-bones to get at the marrow, and even cut
out the tongue.


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Input:
They had stolen the skin and all the
eatable meat, broken up the leg-bones to get at the marrow, and even cut
out the tongue.

Output: And to injury the skulking thieves had added insult.


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Input: And to injury the skulking thieves had added insult.

Output:
Through laziness they had left the head unskinned, but on one side of it
they had smeared the hair with red war-paint, the other side they had
daubed with yellow, and around the base of one horn they had tied a
strip of red flannel as a signal of defiance.


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Input:
Through laziness they had left the head unskinned, but on one side of it
they had smeared the hair with red war-paint, the other side they had
daubed with yellow, and around the base of one horn they had tied a
strip of red flannel as a signal of defiance.

Output:
Of course they had left
for parts unknown, and we never saw any signs of them afterward.


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Input:
Of course they had left
for parts unknown, and we never saw any signs of them afterward.

Output:
The
gang visited the =LU=-bar ranch a few days later, so we learned
subsequently.


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Input:
The
gang visited the =LU=-bar ranch a few days later, so we learned
subsequently.

Output:
It was then composed of eleven braves(!), who claimed to
be Assinniboines, and were therefore believed to be Piegans, the most
notorious horse and cattle thieves in the Northwest.


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Input:
It was then composed of eleven braves(!), who claimed to
be Assinniboines, and were therefore believed to be Piegans, the most
notorious horse and cattle thieves in the Northwest.

Output:
On October 22d Mr. Russell ran down in a fair chase a fine bull buffalo,
and killed him in the rough country bordering the High Divide on the
south.


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Input:
On October 22d Mr. Russell ran down in a fair chase a fine bull buffalo,
and killed him in the rough country bordering the High Divide on the
south.

Output: This was the ninth specimen.


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Input: This was the ninth specimen.

Output:
On the 26th we made an other trip
with the wagon to the Buffalo Buttes, as, for the sake of convenience,
we had named the group of buttes near which eight head had already been
taken.


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Input:
On the 26th we made an other trip
with the wagon to the Buffalo Buttes, as, for the sake of convenience,
we had named the group of buttes near which eight head had already been
taken.

Output:
While Mr. Brown and I were getting the wagon across the bad
grounds, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd discovered a solitary bull buffalo
feeding in a ravine within a quarter of a mile of our intended camping
place, and the former stalked him and killed him at long range.


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Input:
While Mr. Brown and I were getting the wagon across the bad
grounds, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd discovered a solitary bull buffalo
feeding in a ravine within a quarter of a mile of our intended camping
place, and the former stalked him and killed him at long range.

Output:
The
buffalo had all been attracted to that locality by some springs which
lay between two groups of hills, and which was the only water within a
radius of about 15 miles.


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Input:
The
buffalo had all been attracted to that locality by some springs which
lay between two groups of hills, and which was the only water within a
radius of about 15 miles.

Output:
In addition to water, the grass around the
Buffalo Buttes was most excellent.


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Input:
In addition to water, the grass around the
Buffalo Buttes was most excellent.

Output:
During all this time we shot antelope and coyotes whenever an
opportunity offered, and preserved the skins and skeletons of the finest
until we had obtained a very fine series of both.


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Input:
During all this time we shot antelope and coyotes whenever an
opportunity offered, and preserved the skins and skeletons of the finest
until we had obtained a very fine series of both.

Output:
At this season the
pelts of these animals were in the finest possible condition, the hair
having attained its maximum length and density, and, being quite new,
had lost none of its brightness of color, either by wear or the action
of the weather.


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Input:
At this season the
pelts of these animals were in the finest possible condition, the hair
having attained its maximum length and density, and, being quite new,
had lost none of its brightness of color, either by wear or the action
of the weather.

Output:
Along Sand Creek and all around the High Divide antelope
were moderately plentiful (but really scarce in comparison with their
former abundance), so much so that had we been inclined to slaughter we
could have killed a hundred head or more, instead of the twenty that we
shot as specimens and for their flesh.


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Input:
Along Sand Creek and all around the High Divide antelope
were moderately plentiful (but really scarce in comparison with their
former abundance), so much so that had we been inclined to slaughter we
could have killed a hundred head or more, instead of the twenty that we
shot as specimens and for their flesh.

Output:
We have it to say that from first
to last not an antelope was killed which was not made use of to the
fullest extent.


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Input:
We have it to say that from first
to last not an antelope was killed which was not made use of to the
fullest extent.

Output:
On the 31st of October, Mr. Boyd and I discovered a buffalo cow and
yearling calf in the ravines north of the High Divide, within 3 miles of
our camp, and killed them both.


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Input:
On the 31st of October, Mr. Boyd and I discovered a buffalo cow and
yearling calf in the ravines north of the High Divide, within 3 miles of
our camp, and killed them both.

Output:
The next day Private West arrived with a
six mule team from Fort Keogh, in charge of Corporal Clafer and three
men.


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Input:
The next day Private West arrived with a
six mule team from Fort Keogh, in charge of Corporal Clafer and three
men.

Output:
This wagon brought us another 2,000 pounds of oats and various
commissary stores.


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Input:
This wagon brought us another 2,000 pounds of oats and various
commissary stores.

Output:
When it started back, on November 3, we sent by it
all the skins and skeletons of buffalo, antelope, etc., which we had
collected up to that date, which made a heavy load for the six mules.


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Input:
When it started back, on November 3, we sent by it
all the skins and skeletons of buffalo, antelope, etc., which we had
collected up to that date, which made a heavy load for the six mules.

Output:
On
this same day Mr. McNaney killed two young cow buffaloes in the bad
lands south of the High Divide, which brought our total number up to
fourteen.


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Input:
On
this same day Mr. McNaney killed two young cow buffaloes in the bad
lands south of the High Divide, which brought our total number up to
fourteen.

Output:
On the night of the 3d the weather turned very cold, and on the day
following we experienced our first snow-storm.


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Input:
On the night of the 3d the weather turned very cold, and on the day
following we experienced our first snow-storm.

Output:
By that time the water in
the hole, which up to that time had supplied our camp, became so thick
with mud and filth that it was unendurable; and having discovered a fine
pool of pure water in the bottom of a little cañon on the southern slope
of the High Divide we moved to it forthwith.


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Input:
By that time the water in
the hole, which up to that time had supplied our camp, became so thick
with mud and filth that it was unendurable; and having discovered a fine
pool of pure water in the bottom of a little cañon on the southern slope
of the High Divide we moved to it forthwith.

Output:
It was really the upper
spring of the main fork of the Big Porcupine, and a finer situation for
a camp does not exist in that whole region.


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Input:
It was really the upper
spring of the main fork of the Big Porcupine, and a finer situation for
a camp does not exist in that whole region.

Output:
The spot which nature made
for us was sheltered on all sides by the high walls of the cañon, within
easy reach of an inexhaustible supply of good water, and also within
reach of a fair supply of dry fire-wood, which we found half a mile
below.


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Input:
The spot which nature made
for us was sheltered on all sides by the high walls of the cañon, within
easy reach of an inexhaustible supply of good water, and also within
reach of a fair supply of dry fire-wood, which we found half a mile
below.

Output:
This became our last permanent camp, and its advantages made up
for the barrenness and discomfort of our camp on Calf Creek.


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Input:
This became our last permanent camp, and its advantages made up
for the barrenness and discomfort of our camp on Calf Creek.

Output:
Immediately
south of us, and 2 miles distant there rose a lofty conical butte about
600 feet high, which forms a very conspicuous landmark from the south.


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Input:
Immediately
south of us, and 2 miles distant there rose a lofty conical butte about
600 feet high, which forms a very conspicuous landmark from the south.

Output: We were told that it was visible from 40 miles down the Porcupine.


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Input: We were told that it was visible from 40 miles down the Porcupine.

Output:
Strange to say, this valuable landmark was without a name, so far as we
could learn; so, for our own convenience, we christened it Smithsonian
Butte.


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Input:
Strange to say, this valuable landmark was without a name, so far as we
could learn; so, for our own convenience, we christened it Smithsonian
Butte.

Output:
The two buffalo cows that Mr. McNaney killed just before we moved our
camp seemed to be the last in the country, for during the following week
we scouted for 15 miles in three directions, north, east, and south,
without finding as much as a hoof-print.


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Input:
The two buffalo cows that Mr. McNaney killed just before we moved our
camp seemed to be the last in the country, for during the following week
we scouted for 15 miles in three directions, north, east, and south,
without finding as much as a hoof-print.

Output:
At last we decided to go away
and give that country absolute quiet for a week, in the hope that some
more buffalo would come into it.


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Input:
At last we decided to go away
and give that country absolute quiet for a week, in the hope that some
more buffalo would come into it.

Output:
Leaving McCanna and West to take care
of the camp, we loaded a small assortment of general equipage into the
wagon and pulled about 25 miles due west to the Musselshell River.


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Input:
Leaving McCanna and West to take care
of the camp, we loaded a small assortment of general equipage into the
wagon and pulled about 25 miles due west to the Musselshell River.

Output:
We found a fine stream of clear water, flowing over sand and pebbles,
with heavy cottonwood timber and thick copses of willow along its banks,
which afforded cover for white-tailed deer.


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Input:
We found a fine stream of clear water, flowing over sand and pebbles,
with heavy cottonwood timber and thick copses of willow along its banks,
which afforded cover for white-tailed deer.

Output:
In the rugged brakes, which
led from the level river bottom into a labyrinth of ravines and gullies,
ridges and hog-backs, up to the level of the high plateau above, we
found a scanty growth of stunted cedars and pines, which once sheltered
great numbers of mule deer, elk, and bear.


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Input:
In the rugged brakes, which
led from the level river bottom into a labyrinth of ravines and gullies,
ridges and hog-backs, up to the level of the high plateau above, we
found a scanty growth of stunted cedars and pines, which once sheltered
great numbers of mule deer, elk, and bear.

Output:
Now, however, few remain, and
these are very hard to find.


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Now, however, few remain, and
these are very hard to find.

Output:
Even when found, the deer are nearly always
young.


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Input:
Even when found, the deer are nearly always
young.

Output:
Although we killed five mule deer and five white-tails, we did
not kill even one fine buck, and the only one we saw on the whole trip
was a long distance off.


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Input:
Although we killed five mule deer and five white-tails, we did
not kill even one fine buck, and the only one we saw on the whole trip
was a long distance off.

Output:
We saw fresh tracks of elk, and also grizzly
bear, but our most vigorous efforts to discover the animals themselves
always ended in disappointment.


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Input:
We saw fresh tracks of elk, and also grizzly
bear, but our most vigorous efforts to discover the animals themselves
always ended in disappointment.

Output:
The many bleaching skulls and antlers of
elk and deer, which we found everywhere we went, afforded proof of what
that country had been as a home for wild animals only a few years ago.


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Input:
The many bleaching skulls and antlers of
elk and deer, which we found everywhere we went, afforded proof of what
that country had been as a home for wild animals only a few years ago.

Output:
We were not a little surprised at finding the fleshless carcasses of
three head of cattle that had been killed and eaten by bears within a
few months.


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Input:
We were not a little surprised at finding the fleshless carcasses of
three head of cattle that had been killed and eaten by bears within a
few months.

Output:
In addition to ten deer, we shot three wild geese, seven sharp-tailed
grouse, eleven sage grouse, nine Bohemian waxwings, and a magpie, for
their skeletons.


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Input:
In addition to ten deer, we shot three wild geese, seven sharp-tailed
grouse, eleven sage grouse, nine Bohemian waxwings, and a magpie, for
their skeletons.

Output:
We made one trip of several miles up the Musselshell,
and another due west, almost to the Bull Mountains, but no signs of
buffalo were found.


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Input:
We made one trip of several miles up the Musselshell,
and another due west, almost to the Bull Mountains, but no signs of
buffalo were found.

Output:
The weather at this time was quite cold, the
thermometer registering 6 degrees below zero; but, in spite of the fact
that we were without shelter and had to bivouac in the open, we were,
generally speaking, quite comfortable.


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Input:
The weather at this time was quite cold, the
thermometer registering 6 degrees below zero; but, in spite of the fact
that we were without shelter and had to bivouac in the open, we were,
generally speaking, quite comfortable.

Output:
Having found no buffalo by the 17th, we felt convinced that we ought to
return to our permanent camp, and did so on that day.


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Input:
Having found no buffalo by the 17th, we felt convinced that we ought to
return to our permanent camp, and did so on that day.

Output:
Having brought
back nearly half a wagon-load of specimens in the flesh or half skinned,
it was absolutely necessary that I should remain at camp all the next
day.


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Input:
Having brought
back nearly half a wagon-load of specimens in the flesh or half skinned,
it was absolutely necessary that I should remain at camp all the next
day.

Output:
While I did so, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd rode over to the Buffalo
Buttes, found four fine old buffalo cows, and, after a hard chase,
killed them all.


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Input:
While I did so, Messrs. McNaney and Boyd rode over to the Buffalo
Buttes, found four fine old buffalo cows, and, after a hard chase,
killed them all.

Output:
Under the circumstances, this was the most brilliant piece of work of
the entire hunt.


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Input:
Under the circumstances, this was the most brilliant piece of work of
the entire hunt.

Output:
As the four cows dashed past the hunters at the Buffalo
Buttes, heading for the High Divide, fully 20 miles distant, McNaney
killed one cow, and two others went off wounded.


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Input:
As the four cows dashed past the hunters at the Buffalo
Buttes, heading for the High Divide, fully 20 miles distant, McNaney
killed one cow, and two others went off wounded.

Output:
Of course the cowboys
gave chase.


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Input:
Of course the cowboys
gave chase.

Output:
About 12 miles from the starting-point one of the wounded
cows left her companions, was headed off by Boyd, and killed.


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Input:
About 12 miles from the starting-point one of the wounded
cows left her companions, was headed off by Boyd, and killed.

Output:
About 6
miles beyond that one, McNaney overhauled the third cow and killed her,
but the fourth one got away for a short time.


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Input:
About 6
miles beyond that one, McNaney overhauled the third cow and killed her,
but the fourth one got away for a short time.

Output:
While McNaney skinned the
third cow and dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, Boyd took their
now thoroughly exhausted horses to camp and procured fresh mounts.


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Input:
While McNaney skinned the
third cow and dressed the carcass to preserve the meat, Boyd took their
now thoroughly exhausted horses to camp and procured fresh mounts.

Output:
On
returning to McNaney they set out in pursuit of the fourth cow, chased
her across the High Divide, within a mile or so of our camp, and into
the ravines on the northern slope, where she was killed.


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Input:
On
returning to McNaney they set out in pursuit of the fourth cow, chased
her across the High Divide, within a mile or so of our camp, and into
the ravines on the northern slope, where she was killed.

Output:
She met her
death nearly if not quite 25 miles from the spot where the first one
fell.


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Input:
She met her
death nearly if not quite 25 miles from the spot where the first one
fell.

Output:
The death of these four cows brought our number of buffaloes up to
eighteen, and made us think about the possibilities of getting thirty.


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Input:
The death of these four cows brought our number of buffaloes up to
eighteen, and made us think about the possibilities of getting thirty.

Output:
As we were proceeding to the Buffalo Buttes on the day after the "kill"
to gather in the spoil, Mr. Brown and I taking charge of the wagon,
Messrs. McNaney and Boyd went ahead in order to hunt.


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Input:
As we were proceeding to the Buffalo Buttes on the day after the "kill"
to gather in the spoil, Mr. Brown and I taking charge of the wagon,
Messrs. McNaney and Boyd went ahead in order to hunt.

Output:
When within about
5 miles of the Buttes we came unexpectedly upon our companions, down in
a hollow, busily engaged in skinning another old cow, which they had
discovered traveling across the bad grounds, waylaid, and killed.


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Input:
When within about
5 miles of the Buttes we came unexpectedly upon our companions, down in
a hollow, busily engaged in skinning another old cow, which they had
discovered traveling across the bad grounds, waylaid, and killed.

Output:
We camped that night on our old ground at the Buffalo Buttes, and
although we all desired to remain a day or two and hunt for more
buffalo, the peculiar appearance of the sky in the northwest, and the
condition of the atmosphere, warned us that a change of weather was
imminent.


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Input:
We camped that night on our old ground at the Buffalo Buttes, and
although we all desired to remain a day or two and hunt for more
buffalo, the peculiar appearance of the sky in the northwest, and the
condition of the atmosphere, warned us that a change of weather was
imminent.

Output:
Accordingly, the following morning we decided without
hesitation that it was best to get back to camp that day, and it soon
proved very fortunate for us that we so decided.


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Input:
Accordingly, the following morning we decided without
hesitation that it was best to get back to camp that day, and it soon
proved very fortunate for us that we so decided.

Output:
Feeling that by reason of my work on the specimens I had been deprived
of a fair share of the chase, I arranged for Mr. Boyd to accompany the
wagon on the return trip, that I might hunt through the bad lands west
of the Buffalo Buttes, which I felt must contain some buffalo.


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Input:
Feeling that by reason of my work on the specimens I had been deprived
of a fair share of the chase, I arranged for Mr. Boyd to accompany the
wagon on the return trip, that I might hunt through the bad lands west
of the Buffalo Buttes, which I felt must contain some buffalo.

Output:
Mr.
Russell went northeast and Mr. McNaney accompanied me.


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Input:
Mr.
Russell went northeast and Mr. McNaney accompanied me.

Output:
About 4 miles
from our late camp we came suddenly upon a fine old solitary bull,
feeding in a hollow between two high and precipitous ridges.


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Input:
About 4 miles
from our late camp we came suddenly upon a fine old solitary bull,
feeding in a hollow between two high and precipitous ridges.

Output:
After a
short but sharp chase I succeeded in getting a fair shot at him, and
killed him with a ball which broke his left humerus and passed into his
lungs.


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Input:
After a
short but sharp chase I succeeded in getting a fair shot at him, and
killed him with a ball which broke his left humerus and passed into his
lungs.

Output:
He was the only large bull killed on the entire trip by a single
shot.


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He was the only large bull killed on the entire trip by a single
shot.

Output:
He proved to be a very fine specimen, measuring 5 feet 6 inches in
height at the shoulders.


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Input:
He proved to be a very fine specimen, measuring 5 feet 6 inches in
height at the shoulders.

Output:
The wagon was overtaken and called back to get
the skin, and while it was coming I took a complete series of
measurements and sketches of him as he lay.


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Input:
The wagon was overtaken and called back to get
the skin, and while it was coming I took a complete series of
measurements and sketches of him as he lay.

Output:
Although we removed the skin very quickly, and lost no time in again
starting the wagon to our permanent camp, the delay occasioned by the
death of our twentieth buffalo,--which occurred on November 20,
precisely two months from the date of our leaving Washington to collect
twenty buffalo, it possible,--caused us all to be caught in a
snow-storm, which burst upon us from the northwest.


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Input:
Although we removed the skin very quickly, and lost no time in again
starting the wagon to our permanent camp, the delay occasioned by the
death of our twentieth buffalo,--which occurred on November 20,
precisely two months from the date of our leaving Washington to collect
twenty buffalo, it possible,--caused us all to be caught in a
snow-storm, which burst upon us from the northwest.

Output:
The wagon had to be
abandoned about 12 miles from camp in the bad lands.


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Input:
The wagon had to be
abandoned about 12 miles from camp in the bad lands.

Output:
Mr. Brown packed
the bedding on one of the horses and rode the other, he and Boyd
reaching camp about 9 o'clock that night in a blinding snow-storm.


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Input:
Mr. Brown packed
the bedding on one of the horses and rode the other, he and Boyd
reaching camp about 9 o'clock that night in a blinding snow-storm.

Output:
Of
coarse the skins in the wagon were treated with preservatives and
covered up.


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Input:
Of
coarse the skins in the wagon were treated with preservatives and
covered up.

Output:
It proved to be over a week that the wagon and its load had
to remain thus abandoned before it was possible to get to it and bring
it to camp, and even then the task was one of great difficulty.


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Input:
It proved to be over a week that the wagon and its load had
to remain thus abandoned before it was possible to get to it and bring
it to camp, and even then the task was one of great difficulty.

Output:
In this
connection I can not refrain from recording the fact that the services
rendered by Mr. W. Harvey Brown on all such trying occasions as the
above were invaluable.


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In this
connection I can not refrain from recording the fact that the services
rendered by Mr. W. Harvey Brown on all such trying occasions as the
above were invaluable.

Output:
He displayed the utmost zeal and intelligence,
not only in the more agreeable kinds of work and sport incident to the
hunt, but also in the disagreeable drudgery, such as team-driving and
working on half-frozen specimens in bitter cold weather.


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Input:
He displayed the utmost zeal and intelligence,
not only in the more agreeable kinds of work and sport incident to the
hunt, but also in the disagreeable drudgery, such as team-driving and
working on half-frozen specimens in bitter cold weather.

Output:
The storm which set in on the 20th soon developed into a regular
blizzard.


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The storm which set in on the 20th soon developed into a regular
blizzard.

Output:
A fierce and bitter cold wind swept down from the northwest,
driving the snow before it in blinding gusts.


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A fierce and bitter cold wind swept down from the northwest,
driving the snow before it in blinding gusts.

Output:
Had our camp been poorly
sheltered we would have suffered, but at it was we were fairly
comfortable.


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Input:
Had our camp been poorly
sheltered we would have suffered, but at it was we were fairly
comfortable.

Output:
Having thus completed our task (of getting twenty buffaloes), we were
anxious to get out of that fearful country before we should get caught
in serious difficulties with the weather, and it was arranged that
Private C. S. West should ride to Fort Keogh as soon as possible, with a
request for transportation.


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Input:
Having thus completed our task (of getting twenty buffaloes), we were
anxious to get out of that fearful country before we should get caught
in serious difficulties with the weather, and it was arranged that
Private C. S. West should ride to Fort Keogh as soon as possible, with a
request for transportation.

Output:
By the third day, November 23, the storm had
abated sufficiently that Private West declared his willingness to start.


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Input:
By the third day, November 23, the storm had
abated sufficiently that Private West declared his willingness to start.

Output:
It was a little risky, but as he was to make only 10 miles the first day
and stop at the =N=-bar camp on Sand Creek, it was thought safe to let
him go.


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Input:
It was a little risky, but as he was to make only 10 miles the first day
and stop at the =N=-bar camp on Sand Creek, it was thought safe to let
him go.

Output:
He dressed himself warmly, took my revolver, in order not to be
hampered with a rifle, and set out.


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Input:
He dressed himself warmly, took my revolver, in order not to be
hampered with a rifle, and set out.

Output:
The next day was clear and fine, and we remarked it as an assurance of
Mr. West's safety during his ride from Sand Creek to the =LU=-bar ranch,
his second stopping-place.


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Input:
The next day was clear and fine, and we remarked it as an assurance of
Mr. West's safety during his ride from Sand Creek to the =LU=-bar ranch,
his second stopping-place.

Output:
The distance was about 25 miles, through bad
lands all the way, and it was the only portion of the route which caused
me anxiety for our courier's safety.


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Input:
The distance was about 25 miles, through bad
lands all the way, and it was the only portion of the route which caused
me anxiety for our courier's safety.

Output:
The snow on the levels was less
than 6 inches deep, the most of it having been blown into drifts and
hollows; but although the coulées were all filled level to the top, our
courier was a man of experience and would know how to avoid them.


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Input:
The snow on the levels was less
than 6 inches deep, the most of it having been blown into drifts and
hollows; but although the coulées were all filled level to the top, our
courier was a man of experience and would know how to avoid them.

Output:
The 25th day of November was the most severe day of the storm, the
mercury in our sheltered cañon sinking to -16 degrees.


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Input:
The 25th day of November was the most severe day of the storm, the
mercury in our sheltered cañon sinking to -16 degrees.

Output:
We had hoped to
kill at least five more buffaloes by the time Private West should arrive
with the wagons; but when at the end of a week the storm had spent
itself, the snow was so deep that hunting was totally impossible save in
the vicinity of camp, where there was nothing to kill.


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Input:
We had hoped to
kill at least five more buffaloes by the time Private West should arrive
with the wagons; but when at the end of a week the storm had spent
itself, the snow was so deep that hunting was totally impossible save in
the vicinity of camp, where there was nothing to kill.

Output:
We expected the
wagons by the 3d of December, but they did not come that day nor within
the next three.


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Input:
We expected the
wagons by the 3d of December, but they did not come that day nor within
the next three.

Output:
By the 6th the snow had melted off sufficiently that a
buffalo hunt was once more possible, and Mr. McNaney and I decided to
make a final trip to the Buffalo Buttes.


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Input:
By the 6th the snow had melted off sufficiently that a
buffalo hunt was once more possible, and Mr. McNaney and I decided to
make a final trip to the Buffalo Buttes.

Output:
The state of the ground made it
impossible for us to go there and return the same day, so we took a
pack-horse and arranged to camp out.


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Input:
The state of the ground made it
impossible for us to go there and return the same day, so we took a
pack-horse and arranged to camp out.

Output:
When a little over half-way to our old rendezvous we came upon three
buffaloes in the bad grounds, one of which was an enormous old bull, the
next largest was an adult cow, and the third a two-year-old heifer.


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Input:
When a little over half-way to our old rendezvous we came upon three
buffaloes in the bad grounds, one of which was an enormous old bull, the
next largest was an adult cow, and the third a two-year-old heifer.

Output:
Mr.
McNaney promptly knocked down the old cow, while I devoted my attention
to the bull; but she presently got up and made off unnoticed at the
precise moment Mr. McNaney was absorbed in watching my efforts to bring
down the old bull.


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Input:
Mr.
McNaney promptly knocked down the old cow, while I devoted my attention
to the bull; but she presently got up and made off unnoticed at the
precise moment Mr. McNaney was absorbed in watching my efforts to bring
down the old bull.

Output:
After a short chase my horse carried me alongside my
buffalo, and as he turned toward me I gave him a shot through the
shoulder, breaking the fore leg and bringing him promptly to the ground.


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Input:
After a short chase my horse carried me alongside my
buffalo, and as he turned toward me I gave him a shot through the
shoulder, breaking the fore leg and bringing him promptly to the ground.

Output:
I then turned immediately to pursue the young cow, but by that time she
had got on the farther side of a deep gully which was filled with snow,
and by the time I got my horse safely across she had distanced me.


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Input:
I then turned immediately to pursue the young cow, but by that time she
had got on the farther side of a deep gully which was filled with snow,
and by the time I got my horse safely across she had distanced me.

Output:
I
then rode back to the old bull.


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I
then rode back to the old bull.

Output:
When he saw me coming he got upon his
feet and ran a short distance, but was easily overtaken.


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Input:
When he saw me coming he got upon his
feet and ran a short distance, but was easily overtaken.

Output:
He then stood
at bay, and halting within 30 yards of him I enjoyed the rare
opportunity of studying a live bull buffalo of the largest size on foot
on his native heath.


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Input:
He then stood
at bay, and halting within 30 yards of him I enjoyed the rare
opportunity of studying a live bull buffalo of the largest size on foot
on his native heath.

Output:
I even made an outline sketch of him in my
note-book.


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Input:
I even made an outline sketch of him in my
note-book.

Output:
Having studied his form and outlines as much as was really
necessary, I gave him a final shot through the lungs, which soon ended
his career.


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Input:
Having studied his form and outlines as much as was really
necessary, I gave him a final shot through the lungs, which soon ended
his career.

Output: This was a truly magnificent specimen in every respect.


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Input: This was a truly magnificent specimen in every respect.

Output:
He was a
"stub-horn" bull, about eleven years old, much larger every way than any
of the others we collected.


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Input:
He was a
"stub-horn" bull, about eleven years old, much larger every way than any
of the others we collected.

Output:
His height at the shoulder was 5 feet 8
inches perpendicular, or 2 inches more than the next largest of our
collection.


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Input:
His height at the shoulder was 5 feet 8
inches perpendicular, or 2 inches more than the next largest of our
collection.

Output:
His hair was in remarkably fine condition, being long, fine,
thick, and well colored.


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Input:
His hair was in remarkably fine condition, being long, fine,
thick, and well colored.

Output:
The hair in his frontlet is 16 inches in
length, and the thick coat of shaggy, straw-colored tufts which covered
his neck and shoulders measured 4 inches.


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Input:
The hair in his frontlet is 16 inches in
length, and the thick coat of shaggy, straw-colored tufts which covered
his neck and shoulders measured 4 inches.

Output:
His girth behind the fore leg
was 8 feet 4 inches, and his weight was estimated at 1,600 pounds.


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Input:
His girth behind the fore leg
was 8 feet 4 inches, and his weight was estimated at 1,600 pounds.

Output: [Illustration: TROPHIES OF THE HUNT.


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Input: [Illustration: TROPHIES OF THE HUNT.

Output:
Mounted by the author in the U. S.
National Museum.


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Input:
Mounted by the author in the U. S.
National Museum.

Output:
Reproduced from the _Cosmopolitan Magazine_, by
permission of the publishers.


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Input:
Reproduced from the _Cosmopolitan Magazine_, by
permission of the publishers.


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Output:
I was delighted with our remarkably good fortune in securing such a
prize, for, owing to the rapidity with which the large buffaloes are
being found and killed off these days, I had not hoped to capture a
really old individual.


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Input:
I was delighted with our remarkably good fortune in securing such a
prize, for, owing to the rapidity with which the large buffaloes are
being found and killed off these days, I had not hoped to capture a
really old individual.

Output:
Nearly every adult bull we took carried old
bullets in his body, and from this one we took four of various sizes
that had been fired into him on various occasions.


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Input:
Nearly every adult bull we took carried old
bullets in his body, and from this one we took four of various sizes
that had been fired into him on various occasions.

Output:
One was found
sticking fast in one of the lumbar vertebræ.[79]


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Input:
One was found
sticking fast in one of the lumbar vertebræ.[79]

Output: [Note 79:


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Input: [Note 79:

Output:
This specimen is now the commanding figure of the group of
buffalo which has recently been placed on exhibition in the Museum.]


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Input:
This specimen is now the commanding figure of the group of
buffalo which has recently been placed on exhibition in the Museum.]

Output:
After a chase of several miles Mr. McNaney finally overhauled his cow
and killed her, which brought the number of buffaloes taken on the fall
hunt up to twenty-two.


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Input:
After a chase of several miles Mr. McNaney finally overhauled his cow
and killed her, which brought the number of buffaloes taken on the fall
hunt up to twenty-two.

Output:
We spent the night at the Buffalo Buttes and
returned to camp the next day.


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Input:
We spent the night at the Buffalo Buttes and
returned to camp the next day.

Output:
Neither on that day nor the one following
did the wagons arrive, and on the evening of the 8th we learned from the
cowboys of the =N=-bar camp on Sand Creek that our courier, Private West,
had not been seen or heard from since he left their camp on November 24,
and evidently had got lost and frozen to death in the bad lands.


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Input:
Neither on that day nor the one following
did the wagons arrive, and on the evening of the 8th we learned from the
cowboys of the =N=-bar camp on Sand Creek that our courier, Private West,
had not been seen or heard from since he left their camp on November 24,
and evidently had got lost and frozen to death in the bad lands.

Output:
The next day we started out to search for Private West, or news of him,
and spent the night with Messrs. Brodhurst and Andrews, at their camp on
Sand Creek.


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Input:
The next day we started out to search for Private West, or news of him,
and spent the night with Messrs. Brodhurst and Andrews, at their camp on
Sand Creek.

Output:
On the 10th, Mr. McNaney and I hunted through the bad lands
over the course our courier should have taken, while Messrs. Russell and
Brodhurst looked through the country around the head of the Little Dry.


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Input:
On the 10th, Mr. McNaney and I hunted through the bad lands
over the course our courier should have taken, while Messrs. Russell and
Brodhurst looked through the country around the head of the Little Dry.

Output:
When McNaney and I reached the =LU=-bar ranch that night we were greatly
rejoiced at finding that West was alive, although badly frost-bitten,
and in Fort Keogh.


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Input:
When McNaney and I reached the =LU=-bar ranch that night we were greatly
rejoiced at finding that West was alive, although badly frost-bitten,
and in Fort Keogh.

Output:
It appears that instead of riding due east to the =LU=-bar ranch, he
lost his way in the bad lands, where the buttes all look alike when
covered with snow, and rode southwest.


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Input:
It appears that instead of riding due east to the =LU=-bar ranch, he
lost his way in the bad lands, where the buttes all look alike when
covered with snow, and rode southwest.

Output:
It is at all times an easy matter
for even a cowboy to get lost in Montana if the country is new to him,
and when there is snow on the ground the difficulty of finding one's way
is increased tenfold.


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Input:
It is at all times an easy matter
for even a cowboy to get lost in Montana if the country is new to him,
and when there is snow on the ground the difficulty of finding one's way
is increased tenfold.

Output:
There is not only the danger of losing one's way,
but the still greater danger of getting ingulfed in a deep coulée full
of loose snow, which may easily cause both horse and rider to perish
miserably.


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Input:
There is not only the danger of losing one's way,
but the still greater danger of getting ingulfed in a deep coulée full
of loose snow, which may easily cause both horse and rider to perish
miserably.

Output:
Even the most experienced riders sometimes ride into coulées
which are level full of snow and hidden from sight.


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Input:
Even the most experienced riders sometimes ride into coulées
which are level full of snow and hidden from sight.

Output:
Private West's experience was a terrible one, and also a wonderful case
of self-preservation.


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Input:
Private West's experience was a terrible one, and also a wonderful case
of self-preservation.

Output:
It shows what a man with a cool head and plenty of
grit can go through and live.


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Input:
It shows what a man with a cool head and plenty of
grit can go through and live.

Output:
When he left us he wore two undershirts, a
heavy blanket shirt, a soldier's blouse and overcoat, two pairs of
drawers, a pair of soldier's woolen trousers, and a pair of overalls.


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Input:
When he left us he wore two undershirts, a
heavy blanket shirt, a soldier's blouse and overcoat, two pairs of
drawers, a pair of soldier's woolen trousers, and a pair of overalls.

Output:
On
his feet he wore three pairs of socks, a pair of _low shoes_ with canvas
leggins, and he started with his feet tied up in burlaps.


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Input:
On
his feet he wore three pairs of socks, a pair of _low shoes_ with canvas
leggins, and he started with his feet tied up in burlaps.

Output:
His head and
hands were also well protected.


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Input:
His head and
hands were also well protected.

Output:
He carried a 38-caliber revolver, but,
by a great oversight, only six matches.


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Input:
He carried a 38-caliber revolver, but,
by a great oversight, only six matches.

Output:
When he left the =N=-bar camp,
instead of going due east toward the =LU=-bar ranch, he swung around and
went southwest, clear around the head of the Little Dry, and finally
struck the Porcupine south of our camp.


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Input:
When he left the =N=-bar camp,
instead of going due east toward the =LU=-bar ranch, he swung around and
went southwest, clear around the head of the Little Dry, and finally
struck the Porcupine south of our camp.

Output:
The first night out he made a
fire with sage-brush, and kept it going all night.


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Input:
The first night out he made a
fire with sage-brush, and kept it going all night.

Output:
The second night he
also had a fire, but it took his last match to make it.


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Input:
The second night he
also had a fire, but it took his last match to make it.

Output:
During the first
three days he had no food, but on the fourth he shot a sage-cock with
his revolver, and ate it raw.


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Input:
During the first
three days he had no food, but on the fourth he shot a sage-cock with
his revolver, and ate it raw.

Output:
This effort, however, cost him his last
cartridge.


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Input:
This effort, however, cost him his last
cartridge.

Output:
Through hard work and lack of food his pony presently gave
out, and necessitated long and frequent stops for rest.


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Input:
Through hard work and lack of food his pony presently gave
out, and necessitated long and frequent stops for rest.

Output:
West's feet
threatened to freeze, and he cut off the skirts of his overcoat to wrap
them with, in place of the gunny sacking, that had been worn to rags.


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Input:
West's feet
threatened to freeze, and he cut off the skirts of his overcoat to wrap
them with, in place of the gunny sacking, that had been worn to rags.

Output:
Being afraid to go to sleep at night, he slept by snatches in the
warmest part of the day, while resting his horse.


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Input:
Being afraid to go to sleep at night, he slept by snatches in the
warmest part of the day, while resting his horse.

Output:
On the 5th day he began to despair of succor, although he still toiled
southward through the bad lands toward the Yellowstone, where people
lived.


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Input:
On the 5th day he began to despair of succor, although he still toiled
southward through the bad lands toward the Yellowstone, where people
lived.

Output:
On the envelopes which contained my letters he kept a diary of
his wanderings, which could tell his story when the cowboys would find
his body on the spring round-up.


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Input:
On the envelopes which contained my letters he kept a diary of
his wanderings, which could tell his story when the cowboys would find
his body on the spring round-up.

Output:
On the afternoon of the sixth day he found a trail and followed it until
nearly night, when he came to Cree's sheep ranch, and found the solitary
ranchman at home.


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Input:
On the afternoon of the sixth day he found a trail and followed it until
nearly night, when he came to Cree's sheep ranch, and found the solitary
ranchman at home.

Output:
The warm-hearted frontiersman gave the starving
wanderers, man and horse, such a welcome as they stood in need of.


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Input:
The warm-hearted frontiersman gave the starving
wanderers, man and horse, such a welcome as they stood in need of.

Output:
West
solemnly declares that in twenty-four hours he ate a whole sheep.


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Input:
West
solemnly declares that in twenty-four hours he ate a whole sheep.

Output:
After
two or three days of rest and feeding both horse and rider were able to
go on, and in course of time reached Fort Keogh.


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Input:
After
two or three days of rest and feeding both horse and rider were able to
go on, and in course of time reached Fort Keogh.

Output:
Without the loss of a single day Colonel Gibson started three teams and
an escort up to us, and notwithstanding his terrible experience, West
had the pluck to accompany them as guide.


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Input:
Without the loss of a single day Colonel Gibson started three teams and
an escort up to us, and notwithstanding his terrible experience, West
had the pluck to accompany them as guide.

Output:
His arrival among us once more
was like the dead coming to life again.


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His arrival among us once more
was like the dead coming to life again.

Output:
The train reached our camp on
the 13th, and on the 15th we pulled out for Miles City, loaded to the
wagon-bows with specimens, forage, and camp plunder.


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Input:
The train reached our camp on
the 13th, and on the 15th we pulled out for Miles City, loaded to the
wagon-bows with specimens, forage, and camp plunder.

Output:
From our camp down to the =HV= ranch, at the mouth of Sand Creek, the
trail was in a terrible condition.


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Input:
From our camp down to the =HV= ranch, at the mouth of Sand Creek, the
trail was in a terrible condition.

Output:
But, thanks to the skill and judgment
of the train-master, Mr. Ed.


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Input:
But, thanks to the skill and judgment
of the train-master, Mr. Ed.

Output:
Haskins, and his two drivers, who also knew
their business well


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Input:
Haskins, and his two drivers, who also knew
their business well

Output:
, we got safely and in good time over the dangerous
part of our road.


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, we got safely and in good time over the dangerous
part of our road.

Output:
Whenever our own tired and overloaded team got stuck
in the mud, or gave out, there was always a pair of mules ready to hitch
on and help us out.


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Input:
Whenever our own tired and overloaded team got stuck
in the mud, or gave out, there was always a pair of mules ready to hitch
on and help us out.

Output:
As a train-master, Mr. Haskins was a perfect model,
skillful, pushing, good-tempered, and very obliging.


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Input:
As a train-master, Mr. Haskins was a perfect model,
skillful, pushing, good-tempered, and very obliging.

Output:
From the =HV= ranch to Miles City the trail was in fine condition, and
we went in as rapidly as possible, fearing to be caught in the
snow-storm which threatened us all the way in.


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Input:
From the =HV= ranch to Miles City the trail was in fine condition, and
we went in as rapidly as possible, fearing to be caught in the
snow-storm which threatened us all the way in.

Output:
We reached Miles City on
December 20, with our collection complete and in fine condition, and the
next day a snow-storm set in which lasted until the 25th, and resulted
in over a foot of snow.


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Input:
We reached Miles City on
December 20, with our collection complete and in fine condition, and the
next day a snow-storm set in which lasted until the 25th, and resulted
in over a foot of snow.

Output:
The ice running in the Yellowstone stopped all
the ferry-boats, and it was with good reason that we congratulated
ourselves on the successful termination of our hunt at that particular
time.


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The ice running in the Yellowstone stopped all
the ferry-boats, and it was with good reason that we congratulated
ourselves on the successful termination of our hunt at that particular
time.

Output:
Without loss of time Mr. Brown and I packed our collection, which
tilled twenty-one large cases, turned in our equipage at Fort Keogh,
sold our horses, and started on our homeward journey.


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Input:
Without loss of time Mr. Brown and I packed our collection, which
tilled twenty-one large cases, turned in our equipage at Fort Keogh,
sold our horses, and started on our homeward journey.

Output:
In due course of
time the collection reached the Museum in good condition, and a series
of the best specimens it contains has already been mounted.


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In due course of
time the collection reached the Museum in good condition, and a series
of the best specimens it contains has already been mounted.

Output:
At this point it is proper to acknowledge our great indebtedness to the
Secretary of War for the timely co-operation of the War Department,
which rendered the expedition possible.


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At this point it is proper to acknowledge our great indebtedness to the
Secretary of War for the timely co-operation of the War Department,
which rendered the expedition possible.

Output:
Our thanks are due to the
officers who were successively in command at Fort Keogh during our work,
Col. John D. Wilkins, Col. George M. Gibson, and Lieut.


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Our thanks are due to the
officers who were successively in command at Fort Keogh during our work,
Col. John D. Wilkins, Col. George M. Gibson, and Lieut.

Output:
Col. M. A.
Cochran, and their various staff officers; particularly Lieut.


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Input:
Col. M. A.
Cochran, and their various staff officers; particularly Lieut.

Output:
C. B.
Thompson, quartermaster, and Lieut.


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Input:
C. B.
Thompson, quartermaster, and Lieut.

Output: H. K. Bailey, adjutant.


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Input: H. K. Bailey, adjutant.

Output:
It is due
these officers to state that everything we asked for was cheerfully
granted with a degree of promptness which contributed very greatly to
the success of the hunt, and lightened its labors very materially.


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It is due
these officers to state that everything we asked for was cheerfully
granted with a degree of promptness which contributed very greatly to
the success of the hunt, and lightened its labors very materially.

Output:
I have already acknowledged our indebtedness to the officers of the
Pennsylvania; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; and Northern Pacific
railways for the courtesies so liberally extended in our emergency.


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I have already acknowledged our indebtedness to the officers of the
Pennsylvania; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul; and Northern Pacific
railways for the courtesies so liberally extended in our emergency.

Output:
I
take pleasure in adding that all the officers and employés of the
Northern Pacific Railway with whom we had any relations, particularly
Mr. C. S. Fee, general passenger and ticket agent, treated our party
with the utmost kindness and liberality throughout the trip.


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I
take pleasure in adding that all the officers and employés of the
Northern Pacific Railway with whom we had any relations, particularly
Mr. C. S. Fee, general passenger and ticket agent, treated our party
with the utmost kindness and liberality throughout the trip.

Output:
We are in
like manner indebted to the officers of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railway for valuable privileges granted with the utmost cordiality.


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We are in
like manner indebted to the officers of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railway for valuable privileges granted with the utmost cordiality.

Output:
Our thanks are also due to Dr. J. C. Merrill, and to Mr. Henry R.
Phillips, of the Phillips Land and Cattle Company, on Little Dry Creek,
for valuable information at a critical moment, and to the latter for
hospitality and assistance in various ways, at times when both were
keenly appreciated.


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Our thanks are also due to Dr. J. C. Merrill, and to Mr. Henry R.
Phillips, of the Phillips Land and Cattle Company, on Little Dry Creek,
for valuable information at a critical moment, and to the latter for
hospitality and assistance in various ways, at times when both were
keenly appreciated.

Output:
Counting the specimens taken in the spring, our total catch of buffalo
amounted to twenty-five head, and constituted as complete and fine a
series as could be wished for.


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Input:
Counting the specimens taken in the spring, our total catch of buffalo
amounted to twenty-five head, and constituted as complete and fine a
series as could be wished for.

Output:
I am inclined to believe that in size and
general quality of pelage the adult bull and cow selected and mounted
for our Museum group are not to be surpassed, even if they are ever
equaled, by others of their kind.


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I am inclined to believe that in size and
general quality of pelage the adult bull and cow selected and mounted
for our Museum group are not to be surpassed, even if they are ever
equaled, by others of their kind.

Output:
The different ages and sexes were thus represented in our collection: 10
old bulls, 1 young bull, 7 old cows, 4 young cows, 2 yearling calves, 1
three-months calf[80]; total, 25 specimens.


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The different ages and sexes were thus represented in our collection: 10
old bulls, 1 young bull, 7 old cows, 4 young cows, 2 yearling calves, 1
three-months calf[80]; total, 25 specimens.

Output:
[Note 80: Caught alive, but died in captivity July 26, 1886, and now in
the mounted group.]


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[Note 80: Caught alive, but died in captivity July 26, 1886, and now in
the mounted group.]

Output: Our total collection of specimens of _


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Output:
Bison americanus_, including
everything taken, contained the following: 24 fresh skins, 1 head skin,
8 fresh skeletons, 8 dry skeletons, 51 dry skulls, 2 foetal young;
total, 94 specimens.


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Bison americanus_, including
everything taken, contained the following: 24 fresh skins, 1 head skin,
8 fresh skeletons, 8 dry skeletons, 51 dry skulls, 2 foetal young;
total, 94 specimens.

Output:
Our collection as a whole also included a fine series of skins and
skeletons of antelope, deer of two species, coyotes, jack rabbits, sage
grouse (of which we prepared twenty-four rough skeletons for the
Department of Comparative Anatomy), sharp tailed grouse, and specimens
of all the other species of birds and small mammals to be found in that
region at that season.


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Our collection as a whole also included a fine series of skins and
skeletons of antelope, deer of two species, coyotes, jack rabbits, sage
grouse (of which we prepared twenty-four rough skeletons for the
Department of Comparative Anatomy), sharp tailed grouse, and specimens
of all the other species of birds and small mammals to be found in that
region at that season.

Output:
From this _matériel_ we now have on exhibition
besides the group of buffaloes, a family group of antelope, another of
coyotes, and another of prairie dogs, all with natural surroundings.

III.


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From this _matériel_ we now have on exhibition
besides the group of buffaloes, a family group of antelope, another of
coyotes, and another of prairie dogs, all with natural surroundings.

III.

Output: THE MOUNTED GROUP IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.


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Input: THE MOUNTED GROUP IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.

Output:
The result of the Smithsonian expedition for bison which appeals most
strongly to the general public is the huge group of six choice specimens
of both sexes and all ages, mounted with natural surroundings, and
displayed in a superb mahogany case.


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Input:
The result of the Smithsonian expedition for bison which appeals most
strongly to the general public is the huge group of six choice specimens
of both sexes and all ages, mounted with natural surroundings, and
displayed in a superb mahogany case.

Output:
The dimensions of the group are as
follows: Length, 16 feet; width, 12 feet, and height, 10 feet.


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The dimensions of the group are as
follows: Length, 16 feet; width, 12 feet, and height, 10 feet.

Output:
The
subjoined illustration is a very fair representation of the principal
one of its four sides, and the following admirable description (by Mr.
Harry P. Godwin), from the Washington _


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The
subjoined illustration is a very fair representation of the principal
one of its four sides, and the following admirable description (by Mr.
Harry P. Godwin), from the Washington _

Output:
Star_ of March 10, 1888, is both
graphic and accurate:

A SCENE FROM MONTANA--SIX OF MR.


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Star_ of March 10, 1888, is both
graphic and accurate:

A SCENE FROM MONTANA--SIX OF MR.

Output:
HORNADAY'S BUFFALOES FORM A PICTURESQUE
GROUP--A BIT OF THE WILD WEST REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM--SOMETHING NOVEL IN THE WAY OF TAXIDERMY--REAL BUFFALO-GRASS,
REAL MONTANA DIRT, AND REAL BUFFALOES.


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HORNADAY'S BUFFALOES FORM A PICTURESQUE
GROUP--A BIT OF THE WILD WEST REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM--SOMETHING NOVEL IN THE WAY OF TAXIDERMY--REAL BUFFALO-GRASS,
REAL MONTANA DIRT, AND REAL BUFFALOES.

Output:
A little bit of Montana--a small square patch from the wildest part of
the wild West--has been transferred to the National Museum.


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A little bit of Montana--a small square patch from the wildest part of
the wild West--has been transferred to the National Museum.

Output:
It is so
little that Montana will never miss it, but enough to enable one who has
the faintest glimmer of imagination to see it all for himself--the
hummocky prairie, the buffalo-grass, the sage-brush, and the buffalo.


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It is so
little that Montana will never miss it, but enough to enable one who has
the faintest glimmer of imagination to see it all for himself--the
hummocky prairie, the buffalo-grass, the sage-brush, and the buffalo.

Output:
It
is as though a little group of buffalo that have come to drink at a pool
had been suddenly struck motionless by some magic spell, each in a
natural attitude, and then the section of prairie, pool, buffalo, and
all had been carefully cut out and brought to the National Museum.


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It
is as though a little group of buffalo that have come to drink at a pool
had been suddenly struck motionless by some magic spell, each in a
natural attitude, and then the section of prairie, pool, buffalo, and
all had been carefully cut out and brought to the National Museum.

Output:
All
this is in a huge glass case, the largest ever made for the Museum.


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All
this is in a huge glass case, the largest ever made for the Museum.

Output:
This
case and the space about it, at the south end of the south hall, has
been inclosed by high screens for many days while the taxidermist and
his assistants have been at work.


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This
case and the space about it, at the south end of the south hall, has
been inclosed by high screens for many days while the taxidermist and
his assistants have been at work.

Output:
The finishing touches were put on
to-day, and the screens will be removed Monday, exposing to view what is
regarded as a triumph of the taxidermist's art.


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The finishing touches were put on
to-day, and the screens will be removed Monday, exposing to view what is
regarded as a triumph of the taxidermist's art.

Output:
The group, with its
accessories, has been prepared so as to tell in an attractive way to the
general visitor to the Museum the story of the buffalo, but care has
been taken at the same time to secure an accuracy of detail that will
satisfy the critical scrutiny of the most technical naturalist.


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The group, with its
accessories, has been prepared so as to tell in an attractive way to the
general visitor to the Museum the story of the buffalo, but care has
been taken at the same time to secure an accuracy of detail that will
satisfy the critical scrutiny of the most technical naturalist.

Output: THE ACCESSORIES.


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Input: THE ACCESSORIES.

Output:
The pool of water is a typical alkaline water-hole, such as are found on
the great northern range of bison, and are resorted to for water by wild
animals in the fall when the small streams are dry.


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Input:
The pool of water is a typical alkaline water-hole, such as are found on
the great northern range of bison, and are resorted to for water by wild
animals in the fall when the small streams are dry.

Output:
The pool is in a
depression in the dry bed of a coulée or small creek.


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The pool is in a
depression in the dry bed of a coulée or small creek.

Output:
A little mound
that rises beside the creek has been partially washed away by the water,
leaving a crumbling bank, which shows the strata of the earth, a very
thin layer of vegetable soil, beneath a stratum of grayish earth, and a
layer of gravel, from which protrude a fossil bone or two.


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Input:
A little mound
that rises beside the creek has been partially washed away by the water,
leaving a crumbling bank, which shows the strata of the earth, a very
thin layer of vegetable soil, beneath a stratum of grayish earth, and a
layer of gravel, from which protrude a fossil bone or two.

Output:
The whole
bank shows the marks of erosion by water.


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The whole
bank shows the marks of erosion by water.

Output:
Near by the pool a small
section of the bank has fallen.


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Near by the pool a small
section of the bank has fallen.

Output:
A buffalo trail passes by the pool in
front.


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A buffalo trail passes by the pool in
front.

Output:
This is a narrow path, well beaten down, depressed, and bare of
grass.


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Input:
This is a narrow path, well beaten down, depressed, and bare of
grass.

Output:
Such paths were made by herds of bison all over their pasture
region as they traveled down water-courses, in single file, searching
for water.


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Input:
Such paths were made by herds of bison all over their pasture
region as they traveled down water-courses, in single file, searching
for water.

Output:
In the grass some distance from the pool lie the bleaching
skulls of two buffalo who have fallen victims to hunters who have
cruelly lain in wait to get a shot at the animals as they come to
drink.


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Input:
In the grass some distance from the pool lie the bleaching
skulls of two buffalo who have fallen victims to hunters who have
cruelly lain in wait to get a shot at the animals as they come to
drink.

Output:
Such relics, strewn all over the plain, tell the story of the
extermination of the American bison.


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Input:
Such relics, strewn all over the plain, tell the story of the
extermination of the American bison.

Output:
About the pool and the sloping
mound grow the low buffalo-grass, tufts of tall bunch-grass and
sage-brush, and a species of prickly pear.


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Input:
About the pool and the sloping
mound grow the low buffalo-grass, tufts of tall bunch-grass and
sage-brush, and a species of prickly pear.

Output:
The pool is clear and
tranquil.


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Input:
The pool is clear and
tranquil.

Output: About its edges is a white deposit of alkali.


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Input: About its edges is a white deposit of alkali.

Output:
These are the
scenic accessories of the buffalo group, but they have an interest
almost equal to that of the buffaloes themselves, for they form really
and literally a genuine bit of the West.


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Input:
These are the
scenic accessories of the buffalo group, but they have an interest
almost equal to that of the buffaloes themselves, for they form really
and literally a genuine bit of the West.

Output:
The homesick Montana cowboy,
far from his wild haunts, can here gaze upon his native sod again; for
the sod, the earth that forms the face of the bank, the sage-brush, and
all were brought from Montana--all except the pool.


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Input:
The homesick Montana cowboy,
far from his wild haunts, can here gaze upon his native sod again; for
the sod, the earth that forms the face of the bank, the sage-brush, and
all were brought from Montana--all except the pool.

Output:
The pool is a glassy
delusion, and very perfect in its way.


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Input:
The pool is a glassy
delusion, and very perfect in its way.

Output:
One sees a plant growing beneath
the water, and in the soft, oozy bottom, near the edge, are the deep
prints made by the fore feet of a big buffalo bull.


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Input:
One sees a plant growing beneath
the water, and in the soft, oozy bottom, near the edge, are the deep
prints made by the fore feet of a big buffalo bull.

Output:
About the soft,
moist earth around the pool, and in the buffalo trail are the
foot-tracks of the buffalo that have tramped around the pool, some of
those nearest the edge having filled with water.


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Input:
About the soft,
moist earth around the pool, and in the buffalo trail are the
foot-tracks of the buffalo that have tramped around the pool, some of
those nearest the edge having filled with water.

Output: THE SIX BUFFALOES.


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Input: THE SIX BUFFALOES.

Output: The group comprises six buffaloes.


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Input: The group comprises six buffaloes.

Output:
In front of the pool, as if just
going to drink, is the huge buffalo bull, the giant of his race, the
last one that was secured by the Smithsonian party in 1888, and the one
that is believed to be the largest specimen of which there is authentic
record.


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Input:
In front of the pool, as if just
going to drink, is the huge buffalo bull, the giant of his race, the
last one that was secured by the Smithsonian party in 1888, and the one
that is believed to be the largest specimen of which there is authentic
record.

Output:
Near by is a cow eight years old, a creature that would be
considered of great dimensions in any other company than that of the big
bull.


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Input:
Near by is a cow eight years old, a creature that would be
considered of great dimensions in any other company than that of the big
bull.

Output: Near the cow is a suckling calf, four months old.


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Input: Near the cow is a suckling calf, four months old.

Output:
Upon the top of
the mound is a "spike" bull, two and a half years old; descending the
mound away from the pool is a young cow three years old, on one side,
and on the other a male calf a year and a half old.


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Input:
Upon the top of
the mound is a "spike" bull, two and a half years old; descending the
mound away from the pool is a young cow three years old, on one side,
and on the other a male calf a year and a half old.

Output:
All the members of
the group are disposed in natural attitudes.


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Input:
All the members of
the group are disposed in natural attitudes.

Output:
The young cow is snuffing
at a bunch of tall grass; the old bull and cow are turning their heads
in the same direction apparently, as if alarmed by something
approaching; the others, having slaked their thirst, appear to be moving
contentedly away.


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Input:
The young cow is snuffing
at a bunch of tall grass; the old bull and cow are turning their heads
in the same direction apparently, as if alarmed by something
approaching; the others, having slaked their thirst, appear to be moving
contentedly away.

Output:
The four months' old calf was captured alive and
brought to this city.


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Input:
The four months' old calf was captured alive and
brought to this city.

Output:
It lived for some days in the Smithsonian grounds,
but pined for its prairie home, and finally died.


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Input:
It lived for some days in the Smithsonian grounds,
but pined for its prairie home, and finally died.

Output:
It is around the great
bull that the romance and main interest of the group centers.


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It is around the great
bull that the romance and main interest of the group centers.


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Output:
*       *

It seemed as if Providence had ordained that this splendid animal,
perfect in limb, noble in size, should be saved to serve as a monument
to the greatness of his race, that once roamed the prairies in myriads.


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*       *

It seemed as if Providence had ordained that this splendid animal,
perfect in limb, noble in size, should be saved to serve as a monument
to the greatness of his race, that once roamed the prairies in myriads.

Output:
Bullets found in his body showed that he had been chased and hunted
before, but fate preserved him for the immortality of a Museum exhibit.


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Input:
Bullets found in his body showed that he had been chased and hunted
before, but fate preserved him for the immortality of a Museum exhibit.

Output: His vertical height at the shoulders is 5 feet 8 inches.


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Input: His vertical height at the shoulders is 5 feet 8 inches.

Output:
The thick hair
adds enough to his height to make it full 6 feet.


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Input:
The thick hair
adds enough to his height to make it full 6 feet.

Output:
The length of his head
and body is 9 feet 2 inches, his girth 8 feet 4 inches and his weight
is, or was, about 1,600 pounds.


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Input:
The length of his head
and body is 9 feet 2 inches, his girth 8 feet 4 inches and his weight
is, or was, about 1,600 pounds.

Output: THE TAXIDERMIST'S OBJECT LESSONS.


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Input: THE TAXIDERMIST'S OBJECT LESSONS.

Output:
This group, with its accessories, is, in point of size, about the
biggest thing ever attempted by a taxidermist.


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Input:
This group, with its accessories, is, in point of size, about the
biggest thing ever attempted by a taxidermist.

Output:
It was mounted by Mr.
Hornaday, assisted by Messrs. J. Palmer and A. H. Forney.


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Input:
It was mounted by Mr.
Hornaday, assisted by Messrs. J. Palmer and A. H. Forney.

Output:
It represents
a new departure in mounting specimens for museums.


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Input:
It represents
a new departure in mounting specimens for museums.

Output:
Generally such
specimens have been mounted singly, upon a flat surface.


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Input:
Generally such
specimens have been mounted singly, upon a flat surface.

Output:
The American
mammals, collected by Mr. Hornaday, will be mounted in a manner that
will make each piece or group an object lesson, telling something of the
history and the habits of the animal.


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Input:
The American
mammals, collected by Mr. Hornaday, will be mounted in a manner that
will make each piece or group an object lesson, telling something of the
history and the habits of the animal.

Output:
The first group produced as one of
the results of the Montana hunt comprised three coyotes.


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Input:
The first group produced as one of
the results of the Montana hunt comprised three coyotes.

Output:
Two of them are
struggling, and one might almost say snarling, over a bone.


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Input:
Two of them are
struggling, and one might almost say snarling, over a bone.

Output:
They do not
stand on a painted board, but on a little patch of soil.


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Input:
They do not
stand on a painted board, but on a little patch of soil.

Output:
Two other
groups designed by Mr. Hornaday, and executed by Mr. William Palmer, are
about to be placed in the Museum.


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Input:
Two other
groups designed by Mr. Hornaday, and executed by Mr. William Palmer, are
about to be placed in the Museum.

Output:
One of these represents a family of
prairie-dogs.


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Input:
One of these represents a family of
prairie-dogs.

Output: They are disposed about a prairie-dog mound.


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Input: They are disposed about a prairie-dog mound.

Output:
One sits on
its haunches eating; others are running about.


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Input:
One sits on
its haunches eating; others are running about.

Output:
Across the mouth of the
burrow, just ready to disappear into it, is another one, startled for
the moment by the sudden appearance of a little burrowing owl that has
alighted on one side of the burrow.


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Input:
Across the mouth of the
burrow, just ready to disappear into it, is another one, startled for
the moment by the sudden appearance of a little burrowing owl that has
alighted on one side of the burrow.

Output:
The owl and the dog are good friends
and live together in the same burrow, but there appears to be strained
relations between the two for the moment.


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Input:
The owl and the dog are good friends
and live together in the same burrow, but there appears to be strained
relations between the two for the moment.

Output:
MAP ILLUSTRATING THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON.
Prepared by W. T. Hornaday.

INDEX.


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Input:
MAP ILLUSTRATING THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON.
Prepared by W. T. Hornaday.

INDEX.

Output:
A.

Abundance of the American bison, 387-393.
Accidents to bison herds, 420.


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Input:
A.

Abundance of the American bison, 387-393.
Accidents to bison herds, 420.

Output: Affection, instinct of, in the bison, 433.


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Input: Affection, instinct of, in the bison, 433.

Output: _


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Output:
Agropyrum_, 429.
Alabama, 380.


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Input:
Agropyrum_, 429.
Alabama, 380.

Output: Albinism in the bison, 411.


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Input: Albinism in the bison, 411.

Output:
Allard, Mr. Charles, 461.
Allen, Mr. J. A., on the American bison, 377, 381, 385, 387, 450, 480.


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Input:
Allard, Mr. Charles, 461.
Allen, Mr. J. A., on the American bison, 377, 381, 385, 387, 450, 480.

Output:
"American Field," quotation from, 433.
  Fur Company, 488.
Andrews, Mr. Harry, 502.


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Input:
"American Field," quotation from, 433.
  Fur Company, 488.
Andrews, Mr. Harry, 502.

Output: _Andropogon provincialis_, 427, 429.


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Input: _Andropogon provincialis_, 427, 429.

Output: _scoparius_, 429.


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Input: _scoparius_, 429.

Output: Argoll, Capt. Sam'l, discovery of bison by, 375, 378.


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Input: Argoll, Capt. Sam'l, discovery of bison by, 375, 378.

Output: Arkansas, 375.


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Input: Arkansas, 375.

Output:
_Aristida purpurea_, 428
Ashe, Mr. Thomas, on the buffalo, 420, 485.
_Astragalus molissimus_,


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Input:
_Aristida purpurea_, 428
Ashe, Mr. Thomas, on the buffalo, 420, 485.
_Astragalus molissimus_,

Output:
429.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railway, 493, 496, 498, 499.
Athabasca, buffaloes in, 523-524.
_Atriplex canescens_, 429.
Audubon and Bachman, observations by, 400.
Aurochs, or European bison, 394.


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Input:
429.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railway, 493, 496, 498, 499.
Athabasca, buffaloes in, 523-524.
_Atriplex canescens_, 429.
Audubon and Bachman, observations by, 400.
Aurochs, or European bison, 394.

Output:
B.

Bailey, Lieut.


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Input:
B.

Bailey, Lieut.

Output:
H. K., 545.
Baird, Prof. S. F., expedition for buffaloes, sent out by, 529.
Baker & Co., Messrs. I. G., 411, 506.


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Input:
H. K., 545.
Baird, Prof. S. F., expedition for buffaloes, sent out by, 529.
Baker & Co., Messrs. I. G., 411, 506.

Output:
Bedson, Mr. S. L., buffalo-breeding by, 452, 454-456.
  herd owned by, 458, 460.


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Input:
Bedson, Mr. S. L., buffalo-breeding by, 452, 454-456.
  herd owned by, 458, 460.

Output:
Berlandier, Dr., on bison in Mexico, 381.
Bismark Grove, Kans., buffaloes at, 461.


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Berlandier, Dr., on bison in Mexico, 381.
Bismark Grove, Kans., buffaloes at, 461.

Output: Bison, the American.


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Input: Bison, the American.

Output:
abundance of, 387-393.
  accidents to herds of, 420.
  adult bull of, 402-406.
  cow of, 406, 436.
  affection in the 433.
  albinism in the, 414.
  as a beast of burden, 457.
  bones of the, 445.
  breeding habits of, 425.
  season of, 396, 415.
  calf of the, 366-401, 425, 433.
  change of form in, 377, 394,


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abundance of, 387-393.
  accidents to herds of, 420.
  adult bull of, 402-406.
  cow of, 406, 436.
  affection in the 433.
  albinism in the, 414.
  as a beast of burden, 457.
  bones of the, 445.
  breeding habits of, 425.
  season of, 396, 415.
  calf of the, 366-401, 425, 433.
  change of form in, 377, 394,

Output:
409.
  character of, 393.
  color of, 396-403.
  courage of, 432.
  cow of, 406-436.


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Input:
409.
  character of, 393.
  color of, 396-403.
  courage of, 432.
  cow of, 406-436.

Output:
Bison, cross-breeding, 451-458.
  domestication of, 379, 451-458.
  fear in 432.
  food of, 426-429.
  habits of, 415-426.
    in running, 422, 430-431.
    in winter, 423.
    when wounded, 426.
  hair of, 449.
  "hide" of, 445, 505-507.
  horns of, 405, 406.
  hunting the, 405, 470, 478, 480, 483, 484, 536-542.
  meat of, 446, 448.


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Bison, cross-breeding, 451-458.
  domestication of, 379, 451-458.
  fear in 432.
  food of, 426-429.
  habits of, 415-426.
    in running, 422, 430-431.
    in winter, 423.
    when wounded, 426.
  hair of, 449.
  "hide" of, 445, 505-507.
  horns of, 405, 406.
  hunting the, 405, 470, 478, 480, 483, 484, 536-542.
  meat of, 446, 448.

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mental capacity of, 429-434.
  migrations of, 389, 420, 424-429.


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mental capacity of, 429-434.
  migrations of, 389, 420, 424-429.

Output: monograph of, by J. A. Allen, 387.


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Input: monograph of, by J. A. Allen, 387.

Output:
"mountain" form of, 407-412.
  mounted skins of, 396, 412, 546-548.
  pelage of, 412-414.
  protection of, possible, 435.
  rank of, with other _


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Input:
"mountain" form of, 407-412.
  mounted skins of, 396, 412, 546-548.
  pelage of, 412-414.
  protection of, possible, 435.
  rank of, with other _

Output:
Bovidæ_, 393.
  reasoning powers of, 429.
  robe of, 441-415, 453, 470.


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Input:
Bovidæ_, 393.
  reasoning powers of, 429.
  robe of, 441-415, 453, 470.

Output:
shedding of pelage of, 412-414.
  size of, 405, 407.
  slaughter of the, 486-513.


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Input:
shedding of pelage of, 412-414.
  size of, 405, 407.
  slaughter of the, 486-513.

Output:
Smithsonian expedition for, 529-546.
  "spike bull" of, 401.
  "wood" variety of, 407-412.
  "yearling" of, 401.


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Input:
Smithsonian expedition for, 529-546.
  "spike bull" of, 401.
  "wood" variety of, 407-412.
  "yearling" of, 401.

Output: Blackford, Mr. E. G., buffaloes presented by, 463, 527.


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Input: Blackford, Mr. E. G., buffaloes presented by, 463, 527.

Output:
Bones, buffalo, utilization of, 445.
Boskowitz, Messrs. J. & A., 394.


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Input:
Bones, buffalo, utilization of, 445.
Boskowitz, Messrs. J. & A., 394.

Output: _Bouteloua oligostachya_, 427, 428.


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Input: _Bouteloua oligostachya_, 427, 428.

Output: Boyd, Mr. Irvin, 534, 537, 538, 540.


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Input: Boyd, Mr. Irvin, 534, 537, 538, 540.

Output:
Breeding of the buffalo, 390, 415, 425.
  with domestic cattle, 452-458, 528.
British Possessions, buffalo in the 384, 408, 489, 504, 523.


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Input:
Breeding of the buffalo, 390, 415, 425.
  with domestic cattle, 452-458, 528.
British Possessions, buffalo in the 384, 408, 489, 504, 523.

Output: Brown, Mr. W. Harvey, 534, 535, 541.


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Input: Brown, Mr. W. Harvey, 534, 535, 541.

Output: _


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Output: Buchloë dactyloides_, 428.


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Input: Buchloë dactyloides_, 428.

Output: Buffalo (see Bison, American.)


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Input: Buffalo (see Bison, American.)

Output: Buffalo Bill (see Cody, Hon.


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Input: Buffalo Bill (see Cody, Hon.

Output: W. F.)


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Input: W. F.)

Output:
Buffalo Buttes, 538, 540, 542.
Buffalo "chips," 541.
Buffalo grass, 427, 428.
Byrd, Col. William, 376, 449.


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Input:
Buffalo Buttes, 538, 540, 542.
Buffalo "chips," 541.
Buffalo grass, 427, 428.
Byrd, Col. William, 376, 449.

Output:
C.

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez, 373.


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Input:
C.

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez, 373.

Output:
Calf of the buffalo, 396-401, 425, 433.
  pelage of, 396-398.
  capture of a, 532.
Calf Creek, Montana, 535, 536.


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Input:
Calf of the buffalo, 396-401, 425, 433.
  pelage of, 396-398.
  capture of a, 532.
Calf Creek, Montana, 535, 536.

Output: Canadian Pacific Railway, 504.


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Input: Canadian Pacific Railway, 504.

Output: Captivity, list of buffaloes in, 458-464.


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Input: Captivity, list of buffaloes in, 458-464.

Output: Carey, Hon.


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Input: Carey, Hon.

Output:
Joseph M., 522.
Carolina, North, 376, 379.


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Input:
Joseph M., 522.
Carolina, North, 376, 379.

Output: South, 379.


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Input: South, 379.

Output:
Castañeda, description of American bison by, 374.
Catlin, George, on buffalo calves, 398.
  on buffalo hunting, 472, 481.


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Input:
Castañeda, description of American bison by, 374.
Catlin, George, on buffalo calves, 398.
  on buffalo hunting, 472, 481.

Output: on extermination of the buffalo, 488.


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Input: on extermination of the buffalo, 488.

Output:
on habits of the buffalo, 419, 423, 434.
  stopped by herd, 392.
Cattle-growers, value of bison to, 451-458.
Cattle, Western range, 452.


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Input:
on habits of the buffalo, 419, 423, 434.
  stopped by herd, 392.
Cattle-growers, value of bison to, 451-458.
Cattle, Western range, 452.

Output:
Central Park menagerie, New York, 463.
Change of form in American bison, 377, 394, 409.
Character of the American bison, 393.


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Input:
Central Park menagerie, New York, 463.
Change of form in American bison, 377, 394, 409.
Character of the American bison, 393.

Output: Chase of the buffalo, on horseback, 470-478.


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Input: Chase of the buffalo, on horseback, 470-478.

Output: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, courtesies extended by, 530.


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Input: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, courtesies extended by, 530.

Output:
"Chips," buffalo, 451.
Christy, Mr. Miller, on the buffalo, 523.
Cochran, Lieut.


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Input:
"Chips," buffalo, 451.
Christy, Mr. Miller, on the buffalo, 523.
Cochran, Lieut.

Output:
Col. M. A., 534, 545.
Cody, Hon.


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Input:
Col. M. A., 534, 545.
Cody, Hon.

Output:
W. F., 460, 477.
Cole, the Hon.


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Input:
W. F., 460, 477.
Cole, the Hon.

Output: Mr., of California, 514.


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Input: Mr., of California, 514.

Output: Color of the American bison, 396, 403.


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Input: Color of the American bison, 396, 403.

Output: Colorado, 488, 523.


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Input: Colorado, 488, 523.

Output: Completeness of the bison's extermination, 521-525.


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Input: Completeness of the bison's extermination, 521-525.

Output: Conger, the Hon.


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Input: Conger, the Hon.

Output:
Mr., 516, 517, 519.
Congress, National Zoological Park established by, 528.


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Input:
Mr., 516, 517, 519.
Congress, National Zoological Park established by, 528.

Output:
Congressional legislation to protect the bison, 513-521.
Cory, Mr. C. B., 523.


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Input:
Congressional legislation to protect the bison, 513-521.
Cory, Mr. C. B., 523.

Output: Coronado, penetration of buffalo range by, 374, 383.


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Input: Coronado, penetration of buffalo range by, 374, 383.

Output: Cortez, American bison first seen by, 373.


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Input: Cortez, American bison first seen by, 373.

Output: Courage, instinct of, in the bison, 432.


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Input: Courage, instinct of, in the bison, 432.

Output:
Cow, the adult buffalo, 406, 436.
  young buffalo, 406.


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Input:
Cow, the adult buffalo, 406, 436.
  young buffalo, 406.

Output:
Cox, Hon. S. S., 515, 516.
Cree Indians, 478, 489, 504, 505, 527.


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Input:
Cox, Hon. S. S., 515, 516.
Cree Indians, 478, 489, 504, 505, 527.

Output:
Cross-breeding between the buffalo and domestic cattle, 451-458.

D.

Dakota, 389, 489, 490, 512.
Davis, Mr. J. N., 512.
Davis, Mr. Theo. R., 483.
Davis, Mr. W. W., records of Coronado's march, by, 383.
Dawes, Hon.


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Input:
Cross-breeding between the buffalo and domestic cattle, 451-458.

D.

Dakota, 389, 489, 490, 512.
Davis, Mr. J. N., 512.
Davis, Mr. Theo. R., 483.
Davis, Mr. W. W., records of Coronado's march, by, 383.
Dawes, Hon.

Output: Henry L., 517.


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Input: Henry L., 517.

Output:
Decoying and driving buffaloes, 483.
De Solis, description of bison, by, 373.
Destruction of the southern herd, 492-502.


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Input:
Decoying and driving buffaloes, 483.
De Solis, description of bison, by, 373.
Destruction of the southern herd, 492-502.

Output: northern herd, 502-513.


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Input: northern herd, 502-513.

Output:
Discovery of the American bison:
  in captivity, by Cortez, 373.


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Input:
Discovery of the American bison:
  in captivity, by Cortez, 373.

Output: eastern North America, by Argoll, 375.


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Input: eastern North America, by Argoll, 375.

Output:
Illinois, by Father Hennepin, 375.
    Texas, by Cabeza de Vaca, 373.


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Input:
Illinois, by Father Hennepin, 375.
    Texas, by Cabeza de Vaca, 373.

Output: Coronado, 373, 383.


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Input: Coronado, 373, 383.

Output:
District of Columbia, 375, 378.
Distribution of the American bison, 376-383, 402, 503, 508.
  geographical center of, 388.
Division of the great buffalo range, 492.


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District of Columbia, 375, 378.
Distribution of the American bison, 376-383, 402, 503, 508.
  geographical center of, 388.
Division of the great buffalo range, 492.

Output:
Dodge, Col. R. I., observations on the buffalo, by, 389, 392,
  400-409, 424, 433, 471, 474, 493, 495, 498.
Domestication of the American bison, 379, 452-458, 528.


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Dodge, Col. R. I., observations on the buffalo, by, 389, 392,
  400-409, 424, 433, 471, 474, 493, 495, 498.
Domestication of the American bison, 379, 452-458, 528.

Output:
Dry Creek, Big, 512, 530, 534.
  Little, 532, 533, 535.


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Input:
Dry Creek, Big, 512, 530, 534.
  Little, 532, 533, 535.

Output: Dupree.


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Input: Dupree.

Output:
Mr. F., buffaloes owned by, 462.

E.

Eldridge, the Hon.


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Input:
Mr. F., buffaloes owned by, 462.

E.

Eldridge, the Hon.

Output:
Mr., 516.
Estimate of buffaloes, 391, 504, 509.
Expedition for bison sent by the Smithsonian, 522, 529-546.