The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-25
The Last Wild Buffalo.

last Duifalo. We encountered the
first one who did away down in the
corner of the Territory on the little
Missouri River. He was stock
man and came along where we were
eamped one night on the way to his
ranch
Are you fell,rs huntinY" he ask
ed.
Partly Briar replied.
Expect to find any buiIaloes ?"
"Well, no. They're all gone, Amt
they ?"
"That's what | was working up n
the. Sweet Grass mountains Il year
ago an one day | struck a buffalo
and run him bout four miles and
killed him He was the last Wild
buffalo there was
A few days later, while we were
driving along near the Powder River
one afternoon cowboy came riding
across the range from toward little
bunch Of stock, and when he came
within about forty yards stopped his
pony and called out
Say, you might Is well 60 back
you won't git none"
wont get what ?.
"Bufaloes | plugged the last one
with my six-shooter up the milk
River two years ago :" And he
rode back again.
At Miles City we got into CONVEX
sation with a man who a harness
shop.
cts too bad" he said, "that the
buffalo has become extinct"
''Yes, it's fact, though-the last
one has gone-I got him myself out
in the Bad lands last spring. Every
body said it was the last one of the
last herd"
When we were near Billings a
man got in to ride to town with us.
He said he was an old hunter, and
soon started on the subject of buffa-
loes.n
"When l was up on the Saskatch-
evan year ago the was lot OF
English hunters got after the last
band of bufialoes, an thought they
cleaned 'em out"
didn't they?"
Zone of 'em got away-a mon
strous big 'un."
"Do you suppose that one is up in
the Saskatchewan country yet?"
"There yet ?" and he looked at us
with plying expression. Didn't
| say l was there? No, sir, he amt
there yeti sneaked up on him an
give it to him in the right eye
Evrybody round here knows me as
as old Pizen Brown, the man that
killed the last buffalo on earth
We afterward went down from
Livingston to Cinnabar on the train
On the trip | occupied a seat with a
minister from Helena, and asked
him if he could account for the fac
that the people of his Territory werC
SO anxious to have it thought tina
each had killed the last buffalo.
Il don't hardly know why it is,
he replied at does seem as if mos
of them are willing to make liars o
themselves for the sake of this dis
tinction."
Is it known where the last buffa
10 was killed, anyhow ?"
"Oh, yes, there is no question
about it whatever and thatmakes
all the more inexplicable why me
should tell story of which it is. s
easy to prove the falsity. Yes, tn
last buffalo was killed up on tn
Flathead River. was up there wit
asmall party Of prominent Helsa,
gentlemen on a deer hunt last sun
mer They were all out except IN,
self one day when they ran acroi
the last herd of buffaloes about
mile from camp. They managed
kill them all except one, and whit
did that one do but come boltir
right into camp on the run. ! picl
ed up gun and shot it through Il
heart. Yes, sir I'm the man wi
killed the last buffalo myself
was a sort Of a scrubby buffalo, b.
droppeditjust the same TN su
| don't know why people will {
right on lying about this questi,
when they must know that IN Il
man who did it,
See here sir, said man to Dako
real estate agent, you know that
you sold me for $50 last fall ?"
Yes