[49] For a full account of Mr. Wickliffe’s experiments, written by himself, see Audubon and Bachman’s “Quadrupeds of North America,” vol. ii, pp. 52-54.
[50] On nearly all the great cattle ranches of the United States it is absolutely impossible, and is not even attempted.—W. T. H.
[51] In summing up the total number of buffaloes and mixed-breeds now alive in captivity, I have been obliged to strike an average on this lot of calves “mixed and pure,” and have counted twelve as being of pure breed and five mixed, which I have reason to believe is very near the truth.
[52] Plains of the Great West, p. 127.
[53] North American Indians, I, pp. 25-26.
[54] Red River Settlement, p. 256.
[55] Schoolcraft’s “North American Indians,” 108.
[56] Schoolcraft, pp. 101-110.
[57] Ocean to Ocean, p. 116.
[58] Assinniboine and Saskatch. Exp. Exped., II, p. 111.