People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — The Last of the Buffalo. [ARTICLE]

The Last of the Buffalo.

One of the last members of the buffalo family was killed on Antelope island, in Great Salt lake, the other day. The animal was an old ball who had for some years lived on the island undisturbed. Recently on aooonnt of his becoming savage it was deoided to shoot him. His body was brought to Salt Lake and is now on exhibition. It weighs 2,845 pounds. This was one of the last full blood buffaloes in the country.