Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

CHAPTER XIX.
THE BUFFALOES.
The buffaloes have been driven from the more
central portions of the country north down here on
the plains and in the valleys, where they have now
congregated, as a last resort, more largely than in
any other part of the country. Here they are at
home; Nature's munificence supplies all their wants.
Here life to them is a round of pleasure, as of old,
while they grow large and fat for their butchers.
They have here an immense country lying between
the Rio Grande and Texas, and traversed by large
mountains, intersected by cross ranges, little in
habited, affording them better protection than any
other place. Here they had their early buffalohood. The first authentic account we have of them
is from this part of the country. Distant as it is
from the sea, the adventurous Spaniards penetrated
it at an early day.
Coronado speaks of having traversed the country
north of the Gila, occupied by the Puebla Indians,
and pushed his way eastward beyond the Rio
Grande to the country of the buffalo, and he is the
first who speaks of that animal, which he calls "a
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