Mountain Man Skills by Stephen Brennan

Author:Stephen Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Polish and decorate the powder horn as you will.

HUNTING BIG GAME

THE BISON OR AMERICAN BUFFALO BY MAYNE REID

The bison—universally though wrongly called buffalo—is the largest ruminant indigenous to the Americas, and perhaps the most interesting animal in America. Its great size and strength—the prodigious numbers in which it was found; its peculiar habitat; the value of its flesh and hide to the hunter; the mode of its chase and capture; all these circumstances render the buffalo an interesting and highly-prized animal.

The appearance of the animal is well-known—the enormous head, with its broad triangular front, the conical hump on the shoulders, the small but brilliantly piercing eyes, the short black horns of crescent shape, the profusion of shaggy hair about the neck and foreparts of the body, the disproportioned bulk of the smaller hind-quarters, the short tail, with its tufted extremity. The hind-quarters are covered with a much shorter and smoother coat of hair, which adds to their apparent disproportion, and this, with the long hirsute covering of the breast, neck, hump, and shoulders, gives to the buffalo—especially when seen in a picture—a somewhat lion-like figure. The naked tail, with its tuft at the end, strengthens this similarity.

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