[30] In testimony whereof the following extract from a letter written by General Stewart Van Vliet, on March 10, 1897, to Professor Baird, is of interest:
“MY DEAR PROFESSOR: On the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant I saw General Sheridan, and yesterday we called on your taxidermist and examined the buffalo bull he is setting up for the Museum. I don’t think I have ever seen a more splendid specimen in my life. General Sheridan and I have seen millions of buffalo on the plains in former times. I have killed hundreds, but I never killed a larger animal than the one in the possession of your taxidermist.”
[31] Quadrupeds of North America, vol. II, p. 44.
[32] Plains of the Great West, p. 144.
[33] Red River, Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Expedition, II p. 104-105.
[34] Plains of the Great West, p. 144-147.
[35] Foot-note by William Blackmore: “The author is in error here, as in a point of the Tarryall range of mountains, between Pike’s Peak and the South Park, in the autumn of 1871, two mountain buffaloes were killed in one afternoon. The skin of the finer was presented to Dr. Frank Buckland.”
[36] North American Indians, vol. I, p. 249, 250.
[37] In the District of Columbia work-house we have a counterpart of this in the public bath-tub, wherein forty prisoners were seen by a Star reporter to bathe one after another in the same water!
[38] Travels in America in 1806. London, 1808.