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.

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valley. When all are ready, the party Inove carefully
and slowly down a long ravil)e to within a short distance of the unsuspecting herd before being discovered. This brought the party near their game,
and the start was close. All seemed to fly over the
extended bottom land in a cloud of dust, which was
raised by their many hoofs. The party diashed
along through the thundering, concentrated mass,
as they swept away firom their view. I stretched my
eyes in the direction where they had so suddenly
disappeared, and nothing could be seen but the cloud
of dust they had left behind them. The party did
not follow the herd over a mile when they had
killed a half dozen fat young cows, shot through the
heart at full speed. This was all they could pack
to the miner's camp, and was more than a supply for
the time. They are seldom killed now faster than
the meat is needed for present use, either by white
men or Indians. Their scarcity and great utility
in this country is beginning to be appreciated.
"But, Monsieur Labordett, you promised to tell
me about the buffalo hunt at'Missouri Lake."'
' That isn't much to tell. It war putty much
like other buffalo hunts. Thar war a lot of us trap
pers happened to be at Nez Perce and Flathead
village in the fall, when they war going to kill winter meat, and as thur hlunt lay in the dire.tie)s we
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