I discharged both barrels of my double gun at him; he turned and made one plunge toward me, but had not time to repeat it before he fell, with his nose not more than three paces off....

I had to return on foot as my horse had bolted." At this place--near the Red River (the season September)--the country swarmed with big game such as North America will never see any more: enormous numbers of bison, of wapiti or Canadian red deer, moose or elk, prong-buck, and of grizzly bears and black bears who followed the herds to attack them.

The rivers swarmed with otters and beavers.

The ground along the banks of the river was worn into a smooth, hard pavement by the hoofs of the thousands of buffaloes.

Racoons, red foxes, wolves, and pumas frequented the bush country and the chumps of forest.