 | 1906 - 1380 pages
...as we realize in reading this extract from Henry's journal : "Nov. 25, 1804. Plains burned in even' direction and blind Buffalo seen every moment wandering...the hair singed off, even the skin in many places is shrivelled up and terribly Spring calves, Yellowstone Park. From a photograph by John possum. burned,... | |
 | George McKinnon Wrong, Hugh Hornby Langton, William Stewart Wallace - 1898 - 260 pages
...174). Nor was water the only enemy of the unfortunate animals. After a prairie fire Henry says : ' ' Plains burned in every direction and blind buffalo...have all the hair singed off ; even the skin in many cases is shrivelled up and terribly burned, and their eyes are swollen and closed fast. It was really... | |
 | 1924 - 1084 pages
...buffalo and writes: Plains burned in every direction and blind buffalo seen every moment waudering about. The poor beasts have all the hair singed off; even the skin in ninny places is shriveled up and terribly burned, and their eyes are swollen and closed fast. ... In... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1906 - 822 pages
...the source of direct danger, as we realize in reading this extract from Henry's journal : "Nov. 25, 1804. Plains burned in every direction and blind Buffalo...the hair singed off, even the skin in many places is shrivelled up and terribly Spring calves, Yellowstone I'ark. From ะป photograph by John possum. burned,... | |
 | 1928 - 322 pages
...informed that every spring it is about the same." (Page 253, Nov. 25, 1804, Pembina River): "Plains burn in every direction and blind buffalo seen every moment...burned, and their eyes are swollen and closed fast. It is really pitiful to see them staggering about, sometimes running afoul of a large stone, at other... | |
 | 1930 - 458 pages
...November 25, 1803, of the effect of a prairie fire he saw in the Hair Hills at the source of Salt River. "Plains burned in every direction and blind buffalo...every moment wandering about. The poor beasts have all their hair singed off; even the skin in many places is shriveled up and terribly burned, and their... | |
 | Tom McHugh - 1979 - 412 pages
...put them out of their misery . . . An even more terrible scene was witnessed in southern Manitoba in 1804: Plains burned in every direction and blind buffalo...moment wandering about. The poor beasts have all the hairs singed off; even the skin in many places is shrivelled up and terribly burned, and their eyes... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 pages
...other, where they lay from three to five files deep." . . . Prairie fires were just as hard on them. "Blind buffalo seen every moment wandering about. The poor beasts have all the hair singed off them; even the skin in many places is shrivelled up and terribly burned, and their eyes are swollen... | |
 | Shepard Krech, Shepard Krech III - 1999 - 322 pages
..."The poor beasts," Henry said, "have all the hair singed off; even skin in many places is shrivelled up and terribly burned, and their eyes are swollen...really pitiful to see them staggering about, sometimes running afoul of a large stone, at other times tumbling downhill and falling into creeks not yet frozen... | |
 | Andrew C. Isenberg - 2000 - 222 pages
...bison. Alexander Henry the Younger noted in November, 1 804, that in the wake of a fall fire storm, "The poor beasts have all the hair singed off, even...really pitiful to see them staggering about, sometimes running afoul of a large stone, at other times tumbling down hill and falling into creeks not yet frozen... | |
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Plains burned in every direction and blind buffalo seen every moment wandering about. The poor beasts have all the hair singed off; even the skin in many places is shrivelled up and terribly burned, and their eyes are swollen and closed fast. 
