D.

Dakota, 389, 489, 490, 512. Davis, Mr. J. N., 512. Davis, Mr. Theo. R., 483. Davis, Mr. W. W., records of Coronado's march, by, 383. Dawes, Hon. Henry L., 517. Decoying and driving buffaloes, 483. De Solis, description of bison, by, 373. Destruction of the southern herd, 492-502. northern herd, 502-513. Discovery of the American bison: in captivity, by Cortez, 373. eastern North America, by Argoll, 375. Illinois, by Father Hennepin, 375. Texas, by Cabeza de Vaca, 373. Coronado, 373, 383. District of Columbia, 375, 378. Distribution of the American bison, 376-383, 402, 503, 508. geographical center of, 388. Division of the great buffalo range, 492. Dodge, Col. R. I., observations on the buffalo, by, 389, 392, 400-409, 424, 433, 471, 474, 493, 495, 498. Domestication of the American bison, 379, 452-458, 528. Dry Creek, Big, 512, 530, 534. Little, 532, 533, 535. Dupree. Mr. F., buffaloes owned by, 462.

E.

Eldridge, the Hon. Mr., 516. Estimate of buffaloes, 391, 504, 509. Expedition for bison sent by the Smithsonian, 522, 529-546. Expeditions of the Red River half-breeds, 436, 437, 474. Extermination of the American bison: cause of the, 454. completeness of the, 521-525. effects of the, 525-527. methods employed in the, 465, 470, 478, 480, 483, 484. north of Union Pacific Railway, 502-513. progress of the, 484. share of the Indians in the, 478. south of the Union Pacific Railway, 498-502. west of the Rocky Mountains, 486. Extermination of American quadrupeds, 487, 491, 502.

F.

Fear, instinct of, in the bison, 432. Fee, Mr. C. S., favors extended by, 545. _Festuca scabrella_, 429. "Field," the London, quotation from, 523. Fleet, Henry, mention of bison on the Potomac, by, 378. Food of the bison, 426-434. "Forest and Stream," quotations from, 411, 511. Forney, Mr. A. H., 531. Fort Keogh, buffaloes near, 509. Fort, the Hon. Mr., of Illinois, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519.

G.

Gaur, or Indian bison, 393. Geographical distribution of the bison, 376-388, 492. Georgia, 379. Gibson, Col. Geo. M., 544, 545. Godwin, Mr. Harry P., 546. Goode, Prof. G. Brown, 379. Goodnight, Mr. Charles, buffaloes owned by, 460. Great Slave Lake, 384, 408. Group of buffaloes in the National Museum. 546-548.

H.

Habits of the bison, 415-426. Hair of the buffalo, uses of the, 449. Half-breeds of the Northwest Territories, 436, 474, 488, 504. Hannaford, Mr. J. M., letter from, 507. "Harper's Magazine," quotation from, 483. Harris, Capt. Moses, 521. Harris, Mr. Robert, courtesies extended by, 530. Haskins, Mr. Edward, train-master, 544. Hawley, Hon. J. R., 517. Hazen, General W. B., on buffalo slaughter, 514, 516. Hedley, Mr. George H., with expedition for bison 531. Hennepin, Father, bison seen in Illinois by, 388. Herds, list of captive bison, 458-464. Hides, buffalo, 445, 505, 506, 507. High Divide, 535, 536, 538, 542. Hind, Prof. H. Y., 407, 476, 478. Holman, Hon. W. S., 516. Hornaday, W. T., group of bison by, 546-548. Horns of the American bison, 405, 407. Huguenot settlers, domestication of bison by, 379, 451. Hunting the buffalo, method of decoying and driving, 483. horseback, 470. impounding, 478. on snow shoes, 484. "still-hunt," 465. "surround," 480. Hunting on the Musselshell River, 539. Hybrid, the buffalo-domestic, 454-457.