Excerpt from Sierra Club Bulletin, 1927, Vol. 12

Of the big game animals the buffalo were about the least in evi dence, the small Show herd in the pasture near Mammoth Hot Springs being all that were seen by our party, because our trails did not take in the summer range of either Of the main herds. At our camp on the northern end Of Yellowstone Lake we were within fifteen or twenty miles of the wild herd, estimated last year at 125 animals, but the rangers said it might take several days of hard riding to locate any of them. They are really wild, and are rarely seen in summer as they wander through the open valleys and timber on the headwaters of Pelican and Raven creeks, or in winter as they dig in the snow for grass in the Pelican Creek Valley.

The tame herd, so called because the animals are kept in a large pasture and fed hay during the winter, were ofi on their summer outing in the mountains; but with the first snows they are rounded up and brought down to the buffalo ranch on Lamar River for the winter. Last year there were about seven hundred in this herd, and each year adds a new crop of calves to more than balance the few losses. In fact, the herd is now so large and requires so much hay for winter-feeding that its further increase, especially of the bulls, offers a serious problem for Superintendent Albright to handle. At his first enthusiastic greeting of the Sierra Club he offered to give each member of the party a buffalo bull to take home. The one con dition of the gifts, however, was that we come and get them, and it seems doubtful if this offer greatly reduces the herd.

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