From the book Before reaching the Mammoth Hot Springs we also saw a number of ducks in the little pools and on the Gardiner. Some of them were rather shy. Others probably those which, as Major Pitcher informed me, had spent the winter there were as tame as barn-yard fowls. Just before reaching the post the Major took me into the big field where Buffalo Hones had some Texas and Flathead Lake Buffalo bulls and cows which he was tending with solicitous care. The original stock of buffalo in the Park have now been to fifteen or twenty individuals, and their blood is being recruited by the addition of buffalo purchased out of the Flathead Lake and Texas Panhandle herds. The buffalo were at first put within a wire fence, which, when it was built, was found to have included both blacktail and whitetail deer. A bull elk was also put in with them at one time, he having met with some accident which made the Major and Buffalo Jones bring him in to doctor him. When he recovered his health he became very cross. Not only would he attack men, but also buffalo, even the old and surly master bull, thumping them savagely with his antlers if they did anything to which he objected. The buffalo are now breeding well. When I reached the post and dismounted at the Major house, I supposed my experience with wild beasts were ended for the day; but this was an error. . . Keywords: Outdoor, American Hunter, Teddy Roosevelt, Buffalo, Mammouth Hot Springs, Gardiner, Major Pitcher, Flathead Lake Buffalo, Texas Panhandle herds,

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