I could not have procured a white buffalo's skin if I had offered ten times as much.

I could not have got it for a thousand dollars." "I would give five thousand!" "It would have been all the same, monsieur.

It is not to be had in Saint Louis." "What says Monsieur Choteau ?" "That there is but little chance of finding what you want.

A man, he says, may travel all over the prairies without meeting with a _white_ buffalo.

The Indians prize them beyond anything, and never let one escape when they chance to fall in with it.