Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-02-28
1.-THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT"

We are under obligations to Mr..
III. y. Grouse. financial clerk at
Cherry Creek sub-Agcncy. for
the following account of The
buffalo hunt to which reference
WAS made by The Press in its issue
OF Jan. 3d.:
EDITOR FOREST CITY PREss:-
To show YOU that | am a man of
my word and to make the boys
green with jealousy. will tell You
IN my own homcly way of the
"TlasJ Buffalo Hunt.
Ed. Dupris. Frank Dupris.
james Loves War and "thc ten
dcrfootN started on the morning of
Feb. Sth across the hill from Ed.
Cars ranch, on the Cheyenne
river, at Carlin, S. d., Over the
brakes of Rndy Creek, wallowing
thru the deep snow, walking and
leading our saddle horses thru the
draws, mounting and dashing down
the ridges where the snow was
blown off. ever scanning the coun-
try for our game. 1t was a long
rough ride, (but a true sport takes
the bitter with the sweet), and an
occasional laugh at some unfortu-
nate fellow who took a header in
some washout or plunge into the
snow made the spice. We saw
buffalo real often Tin our mind''
but they turned out to be horses
OF cattle.
The boys would tell me, "You
will know when you see one"
We had ridden about fifteen miles
without seeing Il house or a man.
only Il few horses and cattle and
occasionally Il coyote skulking
away from some carcass, but climb
ing the high buttes to get a better
view of the plains we ut last came
in sight of our game. three or four
miles off on the hills. We then
rode to n of the highest buttcs
and signaled to our team that had
our camp outfit. Ii was nearly
noon and we felt just Il little bit
hungry. Our team was tiveor six
miles away from us following
along the divide which is the only
way Il team al travel on the snowy
prairie. And it would be fool
hardy to start out on Il fifty or
sixty mile drive without Il camp
outfit, for if night or a storm over
took Il party of hunters they would
suffer and possibly perish with the
cold.
The novel thing for the ''tender-
foot was how they were to signal
for the team. and they said s'wait
and see Tor tokshcy). One of
the boys ON the darkest horse rode
high up on the butte and ran his
horse in a circle down the side of
the butte, and then back up. re-
peating several times, and nearly
instantly the team started down
n of the ridges toward us. We
all then crossed down toward the
team to a deep creek where we met
the team and unloadcd our camp
outfit, pitched u tent, ate our
dinners, fed our horses, cut our
wood for the night, after which we
started for the chase. We then
had about four or FIVE miles to ride
to sight the game again. Ed. an
old buffalo hunter, took the lead
and we followed with the team till
he motioned for the team to stop
and the rest of us to come up.
We filled up. or loaded our re-
peating rifles, goteverything ready
for business and started with
''tense nerves. q am speaking for
the Tenderfoot now and the nearer
we came to the brow of the hill the
more.the Tenderfoot would have
liked to nave made a ''potshut'
and wished and wondered If every
thing was all right. Pretty soon,
when we we're nearing the top OF
the ridge, something big and black
came looming up away ahead and
we skulked back down the rayine