The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-19

the savage pressed him too CLOSELY
then he would make another stane
with the saddle set up in front O.
him.
After few more unsuccessful
charges, the Indians lett him
When he had arrived Safety at the
train they. asked him why he bad
not flled shot when the Indians
rode so close to him. He stated il
he had a thousand shots he would
have fired them all, bat in crossing
the river that morning his horse had
to swim and his revolver got w ct
Gre cartridges were the old fashion
ed kind, made OF paper, and Dercus-
sion caps the means of printing!
Mr.. Wright tells of the Kansas
plains great game country in other
days, and some OF his notes help
to explain why it is so no longer:
Horace Greeley estimated the
number of buffalos at 5 ZOO, 900.
| agree with him, only think there
were nearly five times that number.
Mr. Greeley passed through them
twice; lived in the heart of the
buffalo range for nearly IS years;
now who do you think would be the
best judge of their number? am
told that some recent writer, who
has studied the buffalo closely, has
placed their number at 9O,OOO,OOO,
and think that he is nearer than |.
Brick Bond, resident OF Dodge,
and an old experienced hunter,
great shot. man of considerable in
telllgenCe and Judgment, and most
reliable man as to truthfulEeSs and
honesty, says that he killed $500
buffaloS in seven days, and his high
est killing was ESQ in one day, and
he had to be on the lookout for ~
dams all tire time. He had IS skim
ners and he was only one 0: many
NO BUFFALO HERDS.
Charles Rath and shipped over
100000 buffalo hides the first winter
the AeChison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad reached Dodge City, and |
think there were at least as many
more shipped from there, besides 200
cars or headquarters and two cars of
buffalo tongues. Often | shot tnem
from the walls eff my corral; for my
hogs to feed upon. Several times
have | seen wagon trains stop to let
the immense herds pass, and time
and time again, along in August or
September, when putting up hay in
the Arkansas bottom, would we
have to put out men, both night and
day, to keep Them out of our herd
Of work cattle. We usually hunted
them on horseback, that is, we
would single out one animal in a herd
and ride along by the side of it and
shoot it with a sixshooter."
OF the wild horses once numerous
On the plains:
These horses were the progeny
of horses abandoned by pl2insmen,
and they were harmful to range
stock. The capture of the stations
was necessary, 50 as to corral and
the mare herds. The, increase of
the wild bands was made yearly by
the escape OF horses from the stock
herds The wild stations could not
Be secured ~ cowboy on horse
back. T, winters campaign was
necessary to accomplish the cap
ture OF the Wild horses The stall
lions werc shot, by getting in close
range by the COWBOY, from TIME to
time, and the mares We're secured
alive
A horse belonging to a Cattleman
BY the name Of f. CIemence was
being >addled with a coWman'S sad
die, made by r. E. Rice, it broke
away rom its owner, and was not
seen until two years atttrWard.
when it was discovered Witha drove
of wild horses, the saddle still beng
in proper position on the back VI
the horse. Tue on her never re-
the animal..'
Mr.. Wright insists upon the
as horsemen, over all
riders, OF the Indians Of 50 years
ago, and tells this curious bit of ex-
perience at an Indian camp near the
Wichita mountains:
" As we hsl'ed and took in this
beautiful panorama bugIe call
sounded, clear and distinct, in the
kiowa camp. Three or four hun
dred young warriors mounted their
ponies, the charge was sounded,
and there came dA. bling toward US.
On they came. eepng as straight
a line as any soldiers ever saw.
When about three hundred feet
from US and just as we were reach
inu for our CdrbineS Cor everything