FOOTNOTES:

[1] See illustration on page 137.

[2] The amateur sportsman or other reader, will find them described at length in the Appendix.

[3] Notes on the geology of the survey for the extension of the Union Pacific Road E. D. from the Smoky Hill to the Rio Grande, by John L. Leconte, M. D. Philadelphia, 1868.

[4] I obtained the weapon that I had loaned our friend, and have carefully kept it since, as a memento.

[5] During the present year, the A. T. & Santa Fe R. R. will probably be finished to the big bend of the Arkansas, which will place the sportsman in one of the finest game regions of the continent.

[6] Dr. H. Latham, under date June 5th, 1870, in the Omaha Daily Herald.