We left Cobourg on the afternoon of the 1st of September in a light waggon, comfortably lined with buffalo robes.
Upon a hilltop perched a country store, a blacksmith shop, and one or two farmhouses, forlorn and lonely in the twilight, and by the woods ran Buffalo Run, ice upon the shallows to either bank.
Up and down Buffalo Run, in the zero weather, the men stripped and bathed.
Before the sun was halfway to the meridian a curious spectacle appeared along the banks of Buffalo Run.
We weren't worried about radio propagation in those days, but we were worried about seasons, and how we felt, and when the buffalo would be restless.
There was a great quantity, and the Sioux attributed their success to the efforts of Rain Crow and the Buffalo Dancers, who they believed had gained the favor of the Great Mystery.
But I will tell you that I am the war leader, and I will ask Running Buffalo to draw his knife and take some blood from my arm.
Then Running Buffalo drew his knife, and turned to Sun Bird.
Each of the dancers wore the skin of a bull buffalo, including the head and horns, and about his ankles were tied tufts of buffalo hair.
Yes, Running Buffalo says that he has wiped it from his heart," declared Red Dog.
The Buffalo Dance, too, was continued with undiminished enthusiasm.
Yes, I believe it belonged to a greatbuffalo hunter," replied White Otter.
At sunrise the warriors who had been selected to dance in the Buffalo Dance walked to the center of the village.
Running Buffalo says that he has listened to the words of his brother, Sun Bird," said Red Dog.
Shouting and laughing, the delighted Sioux ran to make preparations for the great buffalo hunt, the most important event in their lives.
About twenty warriors took part, and as the old men sang the sacred buffalo songs the dancers began to imitate the animals which they were supposed to represent.
Now, as darkness closed down, he appointed a lad, with a buffalo horn containing tinder and several glowing embers, to stand beside each pile of fuel.
Behind the hunters followed the women, leading the pack animals loaded withbuffalo meat.
In the meantime the Buffalo Dance drew fresh recruits from the Uncapapas, and the entire night was passed in ceremony and celebration.
But there was plenty of "draw" to it, as Monroe came in with his arms full of buffalo chips, filled the stove full, and touched a match to them.
Stanley, just roll out the rest of that bacon and hard-tack, and, Monroe, you go outside and throw in some buffalo chips.
And from Buffalo to Lake Erie, Across the entrance to river, It was a scene of icebergs dreary, Those who saw will remember ever.
Footnote B: The last buffalo on record, in the Upper Ohio region, was killed in the Great Kanawha Valley, a dozen miles from Charleston, W.
By 1812 there was to be seen here just the sort of bustling, vicious frontier town, with battlement-fronts and ragged streets, which Buffalo and then Detroit became in after years.
Ten to each man, and after the summer on rich buffalo grass every horse was in a state that boded no good for the unaccustomed rider.
It was the largest species of the gray wolf, and often attacked and killed buffaloes and on that account was called by trappers, Indian traders and the early pioneers of the west the 'buffalo wolf.
Hundreds of lodge poles with finely dressed buffalo robes, dried meats, utensils and Indian trinkets were left behind.
Small herds of buffalo and antelope were frequently seen from the car windows; the passengers fired at them and often wounded an antelope, which limped away in a vain attempt to join its mates.
The buffalo and antelope have disappeared and in their stead herds of cattle and sheep graze in countless thousands.
The fact had flashed over me that the object seen in the road behind us was not a dog but a buffalo wolf.
The buffalo wolf of Nebraska was the same as the giant wolf of Oregon.
Some years later, when peace was restored and Crow Dog with his son and two warriors were hunting buffalo on the Little Big Horn, they were themselves pursued by a hostile party of Crow Indians.
Look closely," he went on, softly, "and notice that large lodge with thebuffalo and the hunter.
Now you're thinking of that time you were treed by a buffalo you had wounded, and kept up in the branches for hours.
For unknown centuries had the red men followed the tortuous buffalo trails in their annual hunts, and frequent spells of warfare between rival tribes.
Some of the others promised to bring in their share of the fresh buffalo meat.
The first represented a wolf, one of those gaunt timber pirates that could easily pull a stag to earth; another had on a buffalo head; while a third seemed to represent a panther.
They could only hope that the buffalo might have stopped near by, to lie down during the heat of the day, or lick the salt at one of the known spots frequented by such animals.
This was a mere stroke of pleasantry on his part, because, the most he could loot in that far North were furs and caches of buffalo meat; and a man's capacity and use for them were limited.
That gives you a chance in history, Pretty Pierre," said a voice from behind a pile of woollen goods and buffalo skins in the centre of the floor.
The valley is green in summer, and the snow is not deep in winter; the noses of the buffalo can find the tender grass.
The Indian pointed instead to the buffalo rumbling down the valley.
In the morning they went forth, and rode into the White Valley where the buffalo were feeding, and sought to steal upon them; but the shots from their guns only awoke the hills, and none were slain.
Though the buffalo swept by them in the valley they could not slay them, and they lived on forest fruits until in time the man sickened.
Where buffalo feed in the wilding glen in sun and snow.
When we left camp, this morning, a shaggy brute of a buffalo came very close to the company; he soon paid the forfeit of his life for his curiosity, being shot by Lieutenant Alexander.
Here first commenced the work of gathering buffalo chips for fuel.
We are once more favored with a grass bed instead of one of dust, and with white poplar wood for fuel, instead of buffalo chips.
Not one buffalo was seen during the whole day, although there was a party detailed to hunt.
At last the buffalo seemed exhausted and stopped, the hunter drawing near him.
It was a wigwam, built in the usual manner, the poles covered with buffalo hides, hair side in, and the opening of the lodge sewed shut with rawhide thongs.
The mosquitoes being very numerous and bloodthirsty here, we burnt an incense of buffalo chips in our tent this evening.
As fuel of every description is scarce at this place the police party was sent out on mule-back, with gunny-bags, in quest of buffalo chips.
A fine, large buffalowas shot, and the tool wagon was dispatched to bring in the spoils.
Game has been unusually scarce the past few days, but to-day a buffalo and some antelopes were seen, although we did not succeed in obtaining any.
The whole Company started to his rescue, loading as we ran, and the first few shots turned the buffalo toward the hills, in which direction he bounded with mighty strides, notwithstanding the fact that he was riddled with bullets.
We encamped in Buffalo Bog, so called because it is a great trail for the buffaloes.
These insects annoyed us excessively; not a moment could we rest, but were obliged to keep our bodies continually in motion, and to burn tarred rope and buffalo chips in the tents.
Questioned by a missionary, a Bushman of more than average intelligence "could not state any difference between a man and a brute--he did not know but a buffalo might shoot with bows and arrows as well as man, if it had them.
So when one of them lay adying, his friends used to wrap him up in a buffalo skin with the hair outside and say to him, "You came hither from the animals and you are going back thither.
He left the company at Buffaloand went to Quebec where English was in limited use, and the story unknown.
I was waiting for a delayed train at Peru for a jump to Buffalo to join up a Keith circuit.
Schillingschen blundered into the trap like a buffalo in strange surroundings.
And, provoked with my stupidity in feeling most moved in the wrong place, I turned away to the hotel, determined to set off for Buffalo that afternoon.
Beautiful children strayed there, who were soon to leave these civilized regions for some really wild and western place, a post in the buffalo country.
But his words have made a very deep print in our hearts, like the step of a strong buffalo on the soft clay of the prairie.
I was carried away in it by two thieves who didn't know I was in the car, because I was disguised, sort of, under the buffalo robe.
May I ask the name of the hero who was disguised as my buffalo robe?
I bet I'd have heard a lot more only my head was under the buffalo robe.
With this he now pierced the piece of sandwich to the heart, linking it forever with that note written tremblingly in a moment of forlorn hope and utter darkness, under the kindly concealment of the buffalo robe.
In using this weapon the warrior protects himself from the missiles of his enemy with a shield made of two thicknesses of undressed buffalo hide filled in with hair.
Here the buffalo generally begin to be seen, and the traveler can always get a plenty of buffalo-chips along in this section.
If travelers have ample transportation, it will be a wise precaution, in passing through the buffalo range, to lay in a supply of jerked meat for future exigences.
No wood within half a mile; some buffalo chips; poor water.
Although generally regarded as migratory in their habits, yet the buffalo often winter in the snows of a high northern latitude.
The buffalo cow, which makes much better beef than the bull, when pursued by the hunter runs rapidly, and, unless the horse be fleet, it requires a long and exhausting chase to overtake her.
They are strangers to all cares, creating for themselves no artificial wants, and are perfectly happy and contented so long as the buffalo is found within the limits of their wanderings.
The buffalo has immense powers of endurance, and will run for many miles without any apparent effort or diminution in speed.
The cause of their freak was found to be a buffalo calf which had strayed from the herd.
The first buffalo I ever saw I followed about ten miles, and when I left him he seemed to run faster than when the chase commenced.
When he put the other foot down the sound was like the roaring of buffalo bulls when they are going to fight each other.
The Buffalo Pitts Engine is built either single cylinder or double cylinder.
Mysa the Wild Buffalo (Mowgli could hear him turn in his wallow), "that is no man.
They had found each other, and the happiness enjoyed during the two hours which elapsed ere Buffalo was reached more than made amends for all the lonely years of wretchedness they had spent apart from each other.
Snugly ensconced in a seat all to herself, she vainly imagined there was no more trouble until Cleveland orBuffalo at least was reached.
I longed with all my lawless will Some elephant by night to kill, Some buffalo that came to drink, Or tiger, at the river’s brink.
The lion oped his ponderous jaw, The buffalo looked round in awe.
That spacious hall from side to side With noblest fare was well supplied, There quarters of the boar, and here Roast of the buffalo and deer, There on gold plate, untouched as yet The peacock and the hen were set.
