Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score years since the late John E. Dooley, then owner of Antelope Island, contrived to take there a small band of buffalo. How he managed this feat no one living seems to know. It baffled one A. H. Leonard who bought the buffalo herd last April with the idea of selling the animals to zoos. Not only were the creatures too wild to catch, but the five-mile stretch of water between island and mainland was too shallow for barges, too deep for motor trucks. If John E. Dooley swam and waded his small herd out to the island, that...
...after offering the animals to the Government, which might have preserved them by buying the Island for a national park but did not, owing to Congressional apathy, Mr. Leonard announced a buffalo hunt. First to arrive was none other than the international president of all the Kiwanis Clubs, Ralph A. Amerman of Scranton, Pa., with his brother Edward and a third big game hunter, J. O. Beebe of Omaha. Mounted on tough cayuses, guided by William Powell, astute Indian, attended by four cowboys, the four sportsmen were to hunt until each had made one kill in true pioneer fashion (shooting...
Meantime, the New York World and other newspapers tried, by featuring the hunts in large headlines, to spur some humane or public-spirited person of wealth to preserve the finest-herd of wild buffalo left in the country. Since the hunts were first announced some months ago, Governor Dern of Utah had received protests from Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Nichols of Boston, the American Humane Society; but could only reply, "Antelope Island and the buffalo herd are privately owned...
...rapid multiplication of the Antelope Island buffalo herd from a few head in 1885 to 300 this year, surprised conservationists. The explanation was found more in the good food supply than the lack of molestation. Food supply is a far greater factor in conserving game than are refinements upon the already adequate protective legislation.* Contrary to popular belief, the migratory game birds of the U. S. are not diminishing but increasing, according to the U. S. Biological Survey. This fact lately led Editor Clark Adams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, himself a keen hunter, to pen an article...
...Properly "bison," but "buffalo" is more popular...