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Bump and Run Raceway, Billings, Montana, July 23, 2000

[View: northeast.  45º 49’ 53” N — 108º 24’ 49” W]

[Clark]                                                                             Thursday 24^th July 1806

. . .  Sergt. Pryor informed me that it would be impossible for the two men with him

to drive on the horses. . .without tireing all the good ones in pursute of the more

indifferent to keep them on the Course.  that in passing every gangue of buffalow

Several of which he had met with, the loos horses as Soon as they Saw the

Buffalow would immediately pursue them and run around them.  All those that

Speed suffient would head the buffalow and those of less Speed would pursue on

as fast as they Could. . .  This disposition in the horses is no doubt owing to their

being frequently exercised in chasing different animals by their former owners the

Indians. . .