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As Banion and Jackson ended their part in the buffalo running and gave

instructions to the wagon men who followed to care for the meat, they

found the

point They were deep into a high rolling plateau where the going was

more difficult than in the level sunken valley of the Platte Concluding

that it would be easier to ride the two sides of the triangle than the

one over which they had cole As they rode, the keen eye of Jackson caught sight of a black

object apparently struggling on the ground at the bottoreen

"Look-ee yan!" he exclaimed "Some feller's lost his buffler, I expect

Let's ride down an' put hi off and rode for a tie object Banion

pulled up

"That's no buffalo! That's a ht, Will, an' bogged bad! I've knew that light-green slough

grass to cover the wurst sort o' quicksand She runs black sand under

the mud, God kno deep Ye kain't run a buffler inter hit--he