Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-04-16
Hunters Stay Cow Running With
a StOCkman'S Herd.
Declared to Be the Last Wild Bison
Of All the Millions That once
Roamed at VIII In
South Dakota.

Guthrie, Okla.-"Just about a year
ago my ranch partner, Phil Ellison,
helped kill the last range buffalo in
South Dakota" said Emmert Ander-
son, a stalwart former Oklahoman,
who came here to visit his parents.
Anderson and Ellison have a cattle
ranch at Rationale Butte, and get
their mail at the little postofIice town
of Dupree, which is 100 miles north
east of Pierre.
This bug 10 was cow" said An
derson, "a%j about fourteen years old.
She was gJhll blood, and the last OF
millions that once roamed that coun-
try. Her presence had been known
for long time, and the cowboys pro
tected her For the last five or six
years she had kept with the herd of
a cattle man named Simon Lutz.
About IA years ago three wild buff
falo came from the north and were
seen on the Lutz range. One OF the
cows dropped a calf, and this calf
phortly became the only wild buffalo
in that part of South Dakota, as its
mother and her two companions were
killed by hunters.
After this COW began going with the
Lutz herd, she grew more or less &C
quainted with Lutz, and would not
stampede when he came in sight,
though he was never able to get close
to her The moment a stranger ap-
reared, however, the COW broke for
the hills and remained in hiding until
We disappeared, but she could outrun
the feetest horse. and nobody ever
succeeded in roping her.
About a year ago Chuck Hall, a
butcher at Faith, S. D.; Ed Carr, and
Phil Ellison QUILTED and started after
the COW. They got sight o. her In q
day or two, and gradually drew closer
to where she was grazing. Carr
stalked her from behind hill wher
the wind was favorable. Peering ovei
the ridge, Carr saw the COW not more
than a hundred yards distant. Hlf
first shot merely wounded her, ant
she charged viciously upon him.
second shot brought her down. Hal
has her head mounted in his butcher
shop at Faith.
ION this same hunt, and in the SANE
locality where the buffalo COW wal
found, these hunters made another xii
that added trophy to their expedi
ton.
For nine years there had been al
outlaw steer of giant size ranging tn
country. His color was solid white
,, and he could be seen for miles on
, bright, sunshiny day. His horns wer
, Of phenomenal size and breadth. II
carried the brand of the old Turke
Track ranch, once one of the mos
widely known outfits in the west, an
whose headquarters were far down !
the Texas Panhandle, where the ba
tie between buffalo hunters and a hi
war party of Comanche Indians too
, place in the early '70s.
THE most persistent effort extent
ing through a period Of years failed
get this old steer to the railroad whe
cattle shipments we're made He woul
drift in for miles, but seemed to haV
kind of uncanny intuition of tin'
danger, and at night would snea
j away from the herd and return to h
> old freedom. Usually a steer will sta
I! with the herd to the end.
! Hail snd his companions shot Il
old fellog and his horns are hangir
; in the b,aaher shop at Faith. He he
been a moving landmark for years
( that part Of South Dakota, and, Ill
r. the buffalo COW, was perhaps the la
of his kind. as the old Turkey Tra'
7 ranch is gone, and calae no long
: are brought up the trail flom the Pa
: handle country to the north"