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PLATE No. 17. |
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PLATE No. 17.
BUFFALO HUNT. DYING BULL IN A SNOW-DRIFT.
In this view the reader is introduced to the ultimum of dreariness and severity which the hunters of the northern prairies have to contend with in the depths of winter.
An intensely cold day, with dry and sand-like snow three or four feet in depth, drifting before the wind, and a herd of buffaloes laboring to plough their way through it, whilst
they are urged on by a party of Indians on snow-shoes, deeply clad in furs, and dealing death to them with their spears.
The dying bull in the foreground of this picture, and that in the preceding plate, were carefully sketched by my own hand whilst the animals were thus struggling with
death; and I therefore confidently offer them as faithful delincations of their forms and looks, as well as fit and impressive subjects for contemplation for those who may ever have
the time, and feel disposed to sympathize with the cruel destruction and extinction of this useful and noble animal.
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