American bison hunting -- History -- 19th century

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Informational/instructional piece discussion of methods of hunting, varieties of traps and snares, etc. of American bison and elk. Includes a typed transcription of same.

Original manuscript from The Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces (1849).

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View of bison at Buffalo Park, Kallispell, Montana.

Scope and Contents Map showing Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma Indian Territory; portions of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and New Mexico. Map bears extensive handwritten notations, in red and blue pencil, indicating scattered bands and exterior limits of the range; main range as they existed in 1868-1870, 1872 and 1873.Resembles the 1867 “Section of the Map of the States of Kansas and Texas and Indian Territory with parts of the territories of Colorado and New Mexico. The routes of...

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Two original handwritten letters; 5 photocopied letters, 9 photocopied documents.

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Handwritten and signed letter from Charles Gilbert to his nephew "How". How is almost certainly Howard Stanbury Abbot.

"...Well now then for the [hunt]--The party was made up of three officers and seven soldiers with a wagon tents [etc] we were mounted on mules and ponies and had two first rate dogs....This day we made a long journey about thirty miles seeing buffalo deeer antelope and the like--but we killed only three buffalo...."