"Mixed with the eager excitement of the hunter was a certain half melancholy feeling as I gazed on these bison, themselves part of the last remnant of a doomed and nearly vanished race."
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A Tale: Buffalo Poacher Provokes a Law That Snares Him — 1894
"With this conviction as a precedent and a strong determination to make other arrests under the new law whenever it is violated, I believe the days of poaching in the Park are nearly at an end."
A Tale: Photos—A Grizzly Chases a Yellowstone Bison
I focus my interest in Yellowstone Park stories to things that happened before 1915, but I couldn't resist joining the thousands of others who shared these remarkable photos.
M. Mark Miller, Author 