The white kills for sport alone the game which is the entire support of the savage. I have often stood among the rotting carcasses of hundreds of buffaloes, and seen the beautiful skins decaying, and tons of richest meat feeding flies and maggots; and, standing there, I have felt but little surprise that the savage should consider such wanton destruction worthy of death. In the States, game is protected at least during the breeding season; but no period of the year is sacred from the spirit of slaughter which holds high revel in Buffalo Land. It is manifest, however, that over the Indian Territory history will soon repeat itself. Railroads are pushing steadily forward; 1872 is already seeing the beginning of the end. The savage must flee still further westward, and the valleys and prairies which he is now jealously protecting will be invaded first by the sportsman, and then by the farmer. Perhaps, before that time, Congress may have taken the matter in hand, and passed laws which will have saved the noblest of our game from at least immediate extinction. APPENDIX. CHAPTER THIRD. ADDITIONAL FACTS CONCERNING THE NATURAL FEATURES, RESOURCES, ETC., OF THE GREAT PLAINS AND CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY. APPENDIX. CONTENTS OF CHAPTER THIRD. PAGE "BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES," 467 THE GREAT WEST, 469 FALL OF THE RIVERS, 470 THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS AND VALLEYS OF BUFFALO LAND, 470 THE VALLEY OF THE PLATTE, 470 THE SOLOMON AND SMOKY HILL RIVERS, 471 THE ARKANSAS RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, 472 STOCK RAISING IN THE GREAT WEST, 474 THE CATTLE HIVE OF NORTH AMERICA, 477 THE CLIMATE OF THE PLAINS, 479 CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE PLAINS, 482 THE TREES AND FUTURE FORESTS OF THE PLAINS, 484 THE SUPPLY OF FUEL, 486 DISTRICTS CONTIGUOUS TO THE PLAINS, 487 THE VALLEYS OF THE WHITE EARTH AND NIOBRARA, 492 NEW MEXICO--ITS SOIL, CLIMATE, RESOURCES, ETC., 494 THE DISAPPEARING BISON, 500 THE FISH WITH LEGS, 501 THE MOUNTAIN SUPPLY OF LUMBER FOR THE PLAINS, 502 CHAPTER III. _ADDITIONAL FACTS CONCERNING THE NATURAL FEATURES OF THE GREAT PLAINS; THEIR PRINCIPAL RIVERS AND VALLEYS; THEIR CLIMATE, ETC., ETC._ "BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES."