HUNTING THE GRISLY AND OTHER SKETCHES

by Theodore Roosevelt



PREPARER'S NOTE

This text was prepared from a 1902 edition, published by G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York and London. It was originally published in
1893. It is part II of "The Wilderness Hunter."


An Account of the Big Game of the United

States and its Chase with Horse

Hound, and Rifle




CHAPTER I.--THE BISON OR AMERICAN BUFFALO.

When we became a nation in 1776, the buffaloes, the first animals
to vanish when the wilderness is settled, roved to the crests of the
mountains which mark the western boundaries of Pennsylvania, Virginia,
and the Carolinas. They were plentiful in what are now the States of
Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. But by the beginning of the present
century they had been driven beyond the Mississippi; and for the next