Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 1, 1851
Another buffalo Hunt. A dispatch from Cincinnati of June 24, says-‘The Buffalo Hunt attended by Indians, yesterday; opposite this city’ was attended by 10,000 persons. The buffalo when attacked by Indians and pierced with arrows, showed no disposition to fight, and the crowd, seeing that they were humbugged, became excited, fired at the Indians, killed […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, July 21, 1851
The Indians who didn’t amuse our people with a Buffalo Hunt, projected a real one at Lexington, Kentucky, on the 7th inst. It turned out to be a failure. The Buffalo refused to fight and the mob, who were disappointed, made a fuss generally, on the failure of their sport, and killed the Buffalo, as […]
Published in the Chicago Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 30, 1859
Greenly writes a long letter describing his trip from Denver City to the mouth of the Platte River. He thus relates a discussion that occurred one night around the campfire. “By the way, there was a discussion at supper between my three companions-all mountaineers of ripe experience-as to the relative merits of certain meats, of […]
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1854
We noticed an Elk in harness passing through our streets the other day; and yesterday we saw a sight still more strange and noteworthy-a yoke of buffaloes-working kindly and efficiently, with three yoke of oxen. On inquiry we learned that they were taken when calves, on the plains, and have been kept since in Keokuk […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850
A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
A Western Man’s Tale of a Buffalo Hunt. It happened in the winter of 1869-70, began the old hunter and plainsman, when the subject of buffaloes was brought up. It was a bad winter in my country and the mercury was well down on the short-cut to China. The buffaloes had taken refuge in mighty […]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, September 11, 1845
The rapid and wasteful destruction of the buffalo in the Western wilderness has been often alluded to and lamented by traveler’s, and is spoken of a length by Captain Fremont. In the last eight or ten years the number of buffalo robes received by the several Fur Companies has been, annually, about 90,000. Thousands of […]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, June 6, 1849
The Minnesota Register, published at St. Paul’s, gives as account of the half-breeds about the Red River, who desire to settle in the limits of the United States: “Within the limits of the territories of the Hudson Bay Company, there resides a class of men, who, ground down by the tyranny of that huge monopoly, […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 7, 1872
A private letter tells of buffalo running thick in the streets of Dodge City, Kansas, and being shot down by the inhabitants.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, September 11, 1840
This extraordinary curiosity was discovered about two years since by a party of trappers belonging to Capt. Bent’s company, lying on the side of one of the beaver dams of the Rio Grande of the north, [a stream emptying itself into the gulf of California,] whose water it is said possess the petrifying qualities, in […]