Excerpt from Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure: A Volume of Facts Gathered From Experience by Hon. C. J. Jones, Whose Eventful Life Has Been Devoted to the Preservation of the American Bison and Other Wild Animals Thousands, even millions, of green hides appeared in the markets of the world, and tourists, attracted by the novelty attending the opening Of the continent, which the press announced in graphic word-painting, com menced an indiscriminate onslaught on the now appar ently doomed animals. To a relatively limited number of persons the interior of the country west of the Missouri was well known. To the majority it was a veritable term z'ncognz'ta. N ow, how ever, there was a phenomenal inrush, whose crowds began to kill merely for the sport it furnished. For miles along the great trunk lines, then wending their way across the ao-called desert, the carcasses of the huge beasts were collected so thickly that one could have walked hundreds of miles, on either side of the track, on their bleached bones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.