But now I saw that I should come to know the real man.

In a very few moments he had talked more than on all the desert trip, and what he said, added to the little I had already learned, put me in possession of some interesting information as to his buffalo.
Some years before he had conceived the idea of hybridizing buffalo with black Galloway cattle; and with the characteristic determination and energy of the man, he at once set about finding a suitable range.

This was difficult, and took years of searching.

At last the wild north rim of the Grand Canyon, a section unknown except to a few Indians and mustang hunters, was settled upon.

Then the gigantic task of transporting the herd of buffalo by rail from Montana to Salt Lake was begun.