These men flocked to the plains$$$ and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day$$$ in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous

These men flocked to the plains$$$ and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day$$$ in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous herds of tame cattle$$$ and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches.