Note 65 — Chapter II
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"About five miles from camp we ascended to the top of a high hill, and for a great distance ahead every square mile seemed to have a herd of buffalo upon it. Their number was variously estimated by the members of the party; by some as high as half a million. I do not think it any exaggeration to set it down at 200,000."—Stevens's Narrative and Final Report. Reports of Explorations and Surveys for Railroad to Pacific, vol. xii, book i, 1860.
The next day, the party fell in with a "buffalo trail," where at least 100,000 were thought to have crossed a slough.