...Boulenger,while he attempts to club, with the butt end of his gun, a most livelysavage who, accompanied by a bison, is attacking him in front...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...In southeastern Texas he discovered theAmerican bison on his native heath...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—Of the numerous references to the occurrence of the bison inVirginia, it is sufficient to allude to Col...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...With an acquaintance which includes fine living examples of all thelarger ruminants of the world except the musk-ox and the European bison,I am sure that the American bison is the grandest of them all...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Judging by theteeth, and also the oldest horns I have seen, I am of the opinion thatthe natural life time of the bison is about twenty-five years; certainlyno less...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The udder of the cow bison is very small, as might be expected of ananimal which must do a great deal of hard traveling, but the milk issaid to be very rich...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Thomas Ashe affords usa most interesting account, from the testimony of an eye witness, of thebehavior of a bison at a salt spring...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...A man can travel over a crust throughwhich the hoofs of a ponderous bison cut like chisels and leave himfloundering belly-deep...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...I have more than once beenastonished at the real impregnability of the retreats selected bywounded bison...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...It was the nutritious character andmarvelous abundance of his food supply which enabled the bison to existin such absolutely countless numbers as characterized his occupancy ofthe great plains...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...GeorgeIslands, Alaska, in countless thousands, have even less sense of dangerand less comprehension of the slaughter of thousands of their kind,which takes place daily, than had the bison...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The value of the American bison to civilized man can never becalculated, nor even fairly estimated...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...—Almost from time immemorialit has been known that the American bison takes kindly to captivity,herds contentedly with domestic cattle, and crosses with them with theutmost readiness...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Although the bison was the first wild species to disappear before theadvance of civilization, he served a good purpose at a highly criticalperiod...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The extirpation of the bison west of the Rocky Mountains was due tolegitimate hunting for food and clothing rather than for marketablepeltries...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...Perhaps the most gigantic task ever undertaken on this continent in theline of game-slaughter was the extermination of the bison in the greatpasture region by the hide-hunters...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...By a coincidence thatproved fatal to the bison, it was just at the beginning of the slaughterthat breech-loading, long-range rifles attained what was practicallyperfection...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
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