Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1881-08-26
Nine Unsuspecting Bison Come in Gun
shot Range and are Among the
Things that We're.
Thousands of Buffalo but Twenty Miles
From Glendive, !the Great
Metropolis.
The Country About Glendive and the
Encouraging Prospects for
Good City.
The Buffalo Range.

The Buffalo Range.
One would scarcely expect to find vast
herds of buffalo within few hours ride
of Bismarck. Yet such is the case A
party consisting of W. E. Curtis, manag-
ing editor Of the Chicago Inter-Ocean
Mr.. Kepler, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and. Col.
Lounsberry, of the Bismarck TRIBUNE,
left Bismarck on Wednesday last for the
Yellowstone country. Arriving at Glen
dive at 7 p. NJ, they were captured
by the officers from Col.
Merrjlls headquarters and invited to
join in buffalo hunt the next day
AT seven a. m. the hunting party con;
sisting of the persons named above, &C
companied by Lieut.. J. D. Mann and pri-
Yates Fessmire and Davis, of the Seventh
cavalry, left Glendive for the buffalo
range, about twenty rmiles north, which
they struck at half past II a. m. The
blackboard and camp outfit was left in
charge of private Davis. Lieut. Mann
and private Fcssmire mounted the horses,
waiting however, until the herd
WAS PUT IN MOTION
by shots from Curtis Kepler and Louns-
berry, when they dashed forward, riding
upon them and shooting them down after
the Indian style. Lieut.. Mann on this
chase killed three and the soldier three.
Curtis and Kepler followed and were lost
in the dust kicked up by the fleeing herd,
first getting in several good shots, how.
ever: Lounsberry plunged madly to the
left on foot to head off the herd, knowing
it must take that course because of the
formation of the country. He succeeded
in separating half dozen from the herd,
and though the bulls formed line and
showed a disposition to contest the
ground, the fearful waste of ammunition
from Lounsberry's gun frightened them
and they stampeded only to rush into
the
JAWS OF DEATH
held wide open by private Fessmffe. His
fourth buffalo fell here. Lounsberry con-
tlnued the chase and became lost to all
sense of hunger, thirst or danger, and
finally to the party, from which he was
absent several hours. He persists he
never was so glad to see man as
he was to see Fessmirc coming with a
lead horse for his benefit, except when
Curtis came up few minutes later car
rying we'll filled flask. The point,
where this affair occurred was promptly
named Brandy Butte or the place where
the lost editor found his bulge. 1t was
p. IN. and Glendive twenty miles away
the course home, passing over a trackless
prairie. Three buffalo were so unwise as
to fellow this course. Davis got in shot
which. broke leg, but the animals
plunged forward, followed by buck
board and horsemen, and two of the three
were killed, all getting in telling shots.
Fessmlre and Davis were left in charge
of the buffalo and Mann drove into camp,
which was reached OF II p. NJ, but never
by more hungry or tired party of nim-
rods. Other features of the chase wiz
more fully appear in the Inter Ocean,
written up in Curtis happieststyle. Louns1
berry, in his wanderings, was once taken
for buffalo bull, and Kepler's shots came
uncemfortably close to him; and once a
buffalo bull was taken for Lounsberry,
and the mistake was only discovered
when he refused to recognize
THE CALL FOR REFRESHMENTS.
The party was absent from 7 a. IN. till
II p. IA. They saw FIVE herds, killed nine
animals, and might have killed score or
more Of antelope and jack rabbits with
out number, had they been hunting that
kind of game. Hundreds of the former
were seen.
SINCE THE INDIANS LEFT THE REGION
north of the Yellowstone, the buffalo
have returned to the excellent grazing
region near Glendive. One was en-
countered within seven miles Of the vii