He was a buffalo man
in the way that Hitler was a Polish Jew man.
It is a pleasure to note the writings of sportsmen with
inquiring minds and of scientists and artists who hunted.
Three examples are: _The English Sportsman in the Western
Prairies_, by the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley, London, 1861;
_Travels in the Interior of North America, 1833-1834_, by
Maximilian, Prince of Wied (original edition, 1843), included
in that "incomparable storehouse of buffalo lore from early
eye-witnesses," _Early Western Travels_, edited by Reuben Gold
Thwaites; George Catlin's _Letters and Notes on the Manners,
Customs and Conditions of the North American Indians_, London,
1841.
Three aspects of the buffalo stand out: the natural history of
the great American animal; the interrelationship between
Indian and buffalo; the white hunter--and exterminator.
ALLEN, J. A. _The American Bison, Living and Extinct_,
Cambridge, Mass., 1876. Reprinted in 9th Annual Report of the
United States Geological and Geographical Survey, Washington,
1877. Basic and rich work, much of it appropriated by
Hornaday.
BRANCH, E. DOUGLAS. _The Hunting of the Buffalo_, New York,
1925.
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