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Title: Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Webb, W. E. (William Edward)
Subjects: Hunting -- West (U.S.) Paleontology -- Kansas West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cincinnati, Chicago, E. Hannaford & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d, and numer-ous breech-loaders fling hundreds of bullets amongthe densely crowded and flying masses. Many of thepoor animals fall, and more go off to die in the ra-vines. The train speeds on, and the scene is repeatedevery few miles until Buffalo Land is passed. Another method of wanton slaughter is the stalk-ing of the herds by men carrying needle-guns. Thesethrow a ball double the weight of the ordinarycarbine, and the shot is effective at six hundredyards. Concealed in ravines, the hunter causes ter-rible havoc with such weapons before the herd takesflight. We were never guilty of ambushing afterthose two days on the Saline, and of those occasionswe were heartily ashamed ever afterward. One specialty of the plains that deserves mention,and quite as remarkable as its brutes and plants,though of rather more modern origin, is its numer-ous Bills. Of these, we became acquainted, beforeour trip was ended, with the following distinct speci-mens: Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, California Bill,
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A TRIBUTE TO THE CAYOTE. 317 Rattlesnake Bill, and Tiger Bill, the last named be-ing, as one of our men who had played with him re-marked, the dangererest on em all, We alsoheard of a Camanche Bill and an Apache Bill, butthese celebrities it was not our fortune to meet. I can not dismiss the peculiar characters of theplains without again paying tribute to that unap-proachable thief, the cayote. Let no party of travel-ers leave any thing exposed in camp lighter than ananvil. Wo lost, in one night, at the hands—orrather the jaws—of these slinking sneak-thieves ofthe plains, a boot, a pair of leather breeches, and ahalf-quarter of buffalo calf, besides some smallerarticles. CHAPTER XXII. /. LIVE TOWN AND ITS GRAVE-YARD—HONEST ROMBEAUX IN TROUBLE—JUDGE LVNOR HOLDS COURT—MARIE AND THE VINE-COVERED COTTAGE THE TEilRIIiLE FLOODS DEATH IN CAMP AND IN THE DUG-OUT WAS IT THE WATER WHICH DID IT? —DISCOVERY OF A HUGE FOSSIL—THE MOSASAURUS OF THE CRETACEOUS SEA A GLIMPSE OF THE REPTI

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