Arizona republican., 1902-02-09

buffalo hides. to-Eht Io:' t,-ec Q. fear icl-.:rs api.ce from the iudiaas, half ...lcj- a..d white l:unJ-rs. while today .t .S :,l-Gpsi imE.s-inic Js .ct {: w II preee.Vci buffalo i-bs fer lss5 iilln sl5c. ;.Hd. it th. lu5e b. uuu'u fly a1- .-rd silky. cs ni.sn as $GHv will hay tn be paid ;C secure iJ-
 Ia the paimy days of ti.c 1uf-a;o hunt tl.r. w-.c certain noted shots in tn. -lCltEwcst who made it tacir business during the tour months c: gey-rr win .c: L. Evnt bunalo Tor th-:r hides. No ctE1- part of the animal waa Utl:zeG except possibly small slice Of rarat from the rJmp which Was practically the only food available for the hunter.
 'Lircr-cating' johnson, ,, famous 1Ioatana scout and buffalo hunter. Nho is stlI living. has probably killed more buffalo ia his day than any other liv ing man. The parties led by him gen orally started from Coulson, cn tn, Yellow stone river. VOW aI abandoned settlement. a few miles rom Billings. Montana. They went north to the Musselshe1 valley. then q famous buf- falo feeding ground. When J herd Cf Buffalo was discovered the animals were run around and around until they were confused and then slaughter be- gan While the firing was in progress tn, herd stood in a daze, which was called getting a stand" and on many occasions nearly the entire herd was killed before any or the buffalo came 10 their senses ana. attempted to es- cape. Ii is told cr "Liver-eatinS'' ,Johnscn that on one occasion from 9 supply Of c50 cartridges for his octa- sOr- -bGrrelcd Sharp's rifle he killed over 200 buffalo.
 The men suffered terribly from the force north winds, and their only food for days at a time was buffalo meat. possibly with salt and possibly with out. The thermometer often ranged for weeks at time from forty below down to sixty. The hunters never took their clothes off and have been known to disembowel the warm carcass Of a slain buffalo and crawl inside to escape the piercing wind of the winter night. In the spring after the hunt was over most Of the men returned to the little frontier settlements with their hair hanging down on their shoulders, their clothes caked with grease. their faces hidden under q tremendous growth of vhiskers, but each with Q bag of gold as his winters wages. It would take but lew days. however. to gamble and drink this money away, and then other employment for the summer was sought. These visits of the buffalo hunters to the frontier settlements in the spring are remembered by those who have witnessed them as the wild est orgies of crime and dissipation ever witnessed in the west
 It was buffalo hunt that first brought President Roosevelt to the bad lands of the Little Missouri country. lie was then quite young man and did rot show the physical viGor which ne has since developed by active out docr life. J. A. Ferris of Medora was President .Rocsevelt's guide when he made his first buffalo hunt i'm 1883. and 1t was one of the solitary old buffalo pulls, the lone sentineIs of the vast herds which had been swept away by the hunters. which young Roosevelt first encountered. He was unusually Fortunate and obtaining good shot at the animal killed him with the first bullet fired. It is probable that this is one of the memorable events in his life