The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
BUFFALO JONES
MIGHTY HUNTER

Buffalo Jones, last of the plainsmen,"
only needs future Fenimore Cooper
or Roosevelt to place him among the
great long-knife backwoods heroes of the
past, along with Boone, Simon Kenton
and Davy Crockett so dear to boyhood
DAYS of dreamy romances of Indian
haunted mountains, streams and forests,
The Bible tells us, says Buffalo Jones
that MAN shall have dominion over
every living thing that moveth over
earth,'' and Buffalo Jones has been rely
ing upon this promise and his own
strength and hunters craft. ever proving
It's truth since he, at the age of Il years,
caught his first squirrel and sold 1t for
81. Since that day Jones has chased and
caught almost everything on four legs
that moves in the wildssof this continent.
Now he is making the same sort of mar
velous captures in Africa.
Had Job seen some of Jones's amazing
sharing, lassoing stunts he doubtless
would have believed the mighty behe-
moth or levathan could be roped up and
then its picture taken by photo
camera He has often gone right into
the dens of bear, panther and mountain
lion and roped and pulled them out and
tied them up like pigs ready for market
Into eaverns In the mountains he has
pursued grizzly bears and mountain lion,
even into their dens and hauled them out
with ropes and slain them. He has
chased panthers up trees, climbed ana
punched them out with long lorked
pole, and then caught and tied them up
into living bundle on the ground.
Many remember Buffalo Jones long be-
fore his appointment by Roosevelt as
game warden of Yellowstone Park; re-
member how Buffalo Jones won the first
choice selection of government land the
txha
horsemen mustered on the border await
Ing for the signal gunfire to start for
the land PRICES the rewards to the swift
est Jones took two horses trained to
run side by side, to run along together
without leading lines He made seven
changes in the nine-mile race, changing
horses every time on a dead run and
never hating asecond. The solid pha-
lanx of 1000 horsemen a mile wide and
% horses deep was wonderful charge
that made the earth tremble and thun-
der like the stampede of whole plain
full of buffaloes. Jones beat this big
bunch of racers by a good half mile
In 1885 Jones had eight buffalo calves
all roped on the ground at the same
time. The great buffalo herd was being
followed 4 by thousands of fierce gray
wolves. Now, American wolves, unless
desperate from hunger, will never tackle
a man, and will also steer clear of any
thing that gives off mans scent, and
they have we'll learned to fear and shun
all of mans wolf traps. for man traps
smell like him. When Jones caught
and tied his first calf he shed his coat
and showed 1t under the little captive;
under the second he tucked his vest, UNI
der the third his hat; for the fourth and
fifth to scare the wolves he drew his
boots; under the sixth and seventh went
his life-saving socks. and. having no
mere clothes to spare. Buffalo Jones
fastened the eighth calf to himself.
To catch lions and rhino bulls by hand
instead of trapping and shooting them,
Jones in January took to Africa as part
of his equipment 10 Of the best Amer
lean trained horses and pack or II
hounds of mixed breeds. Lassoes of his
are slick creased Russian hemp. no big
ger than the little finger, but they hold
up weight of two tons. Captured
beasts are scientifically tiled and triced
up with Russian hemp ropes, through
which run strands of Zine steel, piano
wire Now. since he has already sue
ceeded and will soon be home by way of
London-not Copenhagen-people need
not get 1t into to their heads that Jones
was either hluffing or gone off on a
wild goose chase, a Don Quixote hunt
for windmills or mares nests, for he has
in Africa hunted and captured the big
gest bull rhinos and roped them for the
photographer to make the moving pic
lures that are to prove as valuable
money gatherers as the Jeff-Jack fight
films.
Jones also brings many captures for
his cross breeding experiments. These
may prove to be of great value. these
hybrida -to-be from the true African
buffalo mated with the American bison
or by embarrassing from either or
both of these with kline cattle.
JONES' from vast experience, says that
every animal loves and clings to life, and
the moment 1t realizes that man can and
will take It's life even the lion or griz-
xiv bear II the worst-whipped animal
In the world. 49,. IL