An exciting buffalo hunt next November with cowboys yippee-ing, Kiowa Indians hiyah-ing, and rich Eastern sportsmen shooting from the saddle was talked about in Texas last week. The killers were to pay from $250 to $400 per buffalo, according to size and trophy value.
The herd—195 adults, 50 calves—is on the 20,000-acre Goodnight ranch, 40 mi. southeast of Amarillo, Tex. That whole region until the 1870's was the grazing ground of vast buffalo herds. Pioneers wanted the prairies for cattle-raising, between 1868 and 1878 deliberately killed practically every buffalo.
Foremost of the...
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