Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-29
THE LAST BUFFALO.
A Question I'm Which Every Resident Oh
Montana Is Interested.


/ 1t is quite difficult to find the man in
Montana who didn't kill the last buff
falo. We encountered the first one who
did away down in the corner of the
Territory on the little Missouri river.
He was stockman. and came along
where we were camped one night on
the way to his ranch.
"Are you fellers huntin'p" he
| asked.
Partly" Briar replied.
| EXPECT to find any buffaloesp'
"Well. no. They're ali gone. aren't
theyP'
That's what was working up n
the Sweet Grass Mountains year ago
an one day l 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 driv-
ing along near the Powder river one
afternoon a cowboy came riding across
the range from toward little bunch
I of stock, and when he came within
about forty yards stopped his pony and
called out:
Say, you might as well 60 back
you won't git none"
Wont get whatp"
"Buifaloes; plugged the last one
with my six-shooter up on the Milk
river two years agoi" And he rode
back again.
At Miles City we got into converse
ton with man who kept harness.
shop.
Its too bad. "he said. ''that the
buffalo has become extinct"
"Yes, it Is. F"
But it's fact, though-the last
oae has gone-I got him myself out n
the Bad Lands last spring. Ev'ry
body said it was the last one of tho
last herd"
When we were near Billings n man
got in to ride to town with us. He
said he was an old hunter. and soon
started on the subject of buffaloes
"When | was UP on the Saskatche-
wan year ago there were lot of
English hunters got after the last band
Of bufraloes. an thought they cleaned
en- out"
Didn't thoyP"
Zone Of 'em got away "a monstrous
big 'un."
"Do you suppose that one is up In
the Saskatchewan country yetp"
There YETI" and he looked at us
with plying expression. Didn't
say was therep No. sir. he amt
there yeti sneakcd up on him an
give it to him in the rightey Ev'ry-
body round here knows me rs old
Pizen Brown. the man that killed tho
last buffalo on earth"
We afterwards went down from
Livingston to Cinnabar on the train.
On tho trip | occupied seat with q
minister from Helena, and asked him
IL he could account for the fact that
the people of his Territory were so
anxious to have it thought that each
had killed the last buffalo.
:" don't know why it is" he ro-
| piled. 1t does seem as il most of
| them are willing to make liars of
| themselves for the sake of this dis
| tinction."
Is it known where the last buffalo
was killed. anyhow"
20. yes. there is no question about
it whatever and that makes it all the
more inexplicable why men should tell
n story OF which 1t is so easy to prove
the falsiy Yes, the last buffalo was
killed up on the Fiathead river.
| was up there with small party of
prominent Helena gentlemen on u
deer hunt last summer. They were
all out except myself one day when
they ran across the last herd of butTa-
loes about mile from camp. They
managed to Kill them all except one.
and what did that ono do but come
boiling right into camp on the run. l
picked up a gun and shot it through
the heart Yes, sir. I'm the man who
killed tho last buffalo myself. 1t was
sort of scrubby buffalo. but
dropped it just the same. I'm sure
don't know why people will go right
on lying about this question when
they mtist know that I'm the man
who did it.n-F H. Cdrruth, IN Chicago
| Tribune.
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