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Identifier: outing15newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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men were swelling the heaps with wagonloads garnered far from the railroad, for agreat business has grown up in gatheringthese trophies. They are shipped East andsold at something like $15 a ton to sugar OUTING FOR OCTOBER. manufacturers for use in their refiningprocesses. The trade will go on for years,we are told, and every year the prairieat greater distances from the railroadwill be cleared of the bleached memen-tos of the erstwhile numerous bison. Howstrangely everything that recalls the bisonalso calls to mind the vast, incalculablenumber of them that there must havebeen ! We certainly saw a million of round them we could see women, ladsand children, lazily watching the train.Some coyooses, as they call the Indianponies, were browsing close at hand.Then the train would run into a station,and we would see a dozen or perhaps ascore of Indian braves and squaws in theirgay blankets and paint-daubed faces, allhurrying up at a dog trot to board thecars when they should stop. The women
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THE MONARCH OF THE WEST. horns and jaw bones in the cars andthe mounds, and yet for years the busi-ness of carting them away has gone on. While we were yet on the western edgeof Manitoba we began to be besieged byredskins selling bison horns in their pol-ished state. Queer sights these, andsoon to become mere memories like therecollections of the bison itself. Thetrain would pass a number of dirty butpicturesque tepees on the prairie. Loafing and boys would leap on the platforms,holding up pairs of lustrously-polishedhorns and shouting A dollar ! Look,one dollar ! Nearly everyone in the first-class cars made purchases, for the hornsthese Indians polish are always veryshapely, large and neatly put together,while the tuft of shaggy hair at the junc-ture makes them look as if they had beenwrenched from a living bisons skull, andsuch horns would cost at least $5 a pair THE TRAIL OF THE BISON. in New York. In their preparation thenoble red man illustrates his idea of howlabor should be div

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