The Red men hunted the bison on their swift little ponies.

Harry, champion, by acclamation, of the College heavyweights, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, square-jawed, six feet and trimmings, a little science, lots of pluck, good-natured as a steer in peace, formidable as a red-eyed bison in the crack of hand-to-hand battle!

He tells a tale of driving 3,000 bison over a bluff near the Snake, where they were all killed by the fall.

If the arrows missed their mark, the Red men killed the bison with their knives.

[Footnote 1: The legend as to the foundation of Moldavia tells us that Dragosh, when hunting one day in the mountains, was pursuing a bison through the dense forest.

The extermination of the buffalo of the southern range was completed about 1875; to the bisons of the northern range were given a few years' grace.

Not quite so savage is this frontier, indeed, as the wild precincts described by the Nebraska editor, whose meditations for a leader used to be cut short, occasionally, by the bellowing of the shaggy bison at his window, or the incursion of the redoubtable "grizzly" into his wood-shed where the elk-meat hung.