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H.C.R. No. 10
1 that year, J. Wright Mooar established the first buffalo hunting
2 camp in Scurry County, on a site along Deep Creek about 10 miles
3 northwest of present-day Snyder; and
4 WHEREAS, Returning to camp late in the afternoon on October
5 7, Mr. Mooar happened upon a white buffalo and dropped the animal
6 with a single shot; altogether, he later wrote, white hunters were
7 recorded to have killed only seven such animals; Theodore Roosevelt
8 reportedly offered Mr. Mooar $5,000 in an unsuccessful bid to
9 purchase the hide, which was subsequently exhibited at the St.
10 Louis Wor.ld's Fair in 1904 and on numerous other occasions; and
11 WHEREAS, A curiosity to many Americans, the white buffalo was
12 held in deepest reverence by various tribes of the Plains Indians,
13 who took it to signify the abundance of the earth; in their
14 religious traditions, a holy woman had once appeared to the people,
15 bearing a sacred pipe, and then transformed herself into a white
16 buffalo; one day, they believed, the.woman would return and unite
17 the nations of the four colors--the black, red, yellow, and white;
18 and
19 WHEREAS, J. Wright Mooar continued hunting until 1877, by
20 which time he is believed to have killed more than 20,000 of the
21 shaggy beasts; with the great .southern buffalo. herd nearly
22 extinguished, he acquired property, including the site where he had
23 shot the white buffalo, and became one of the earliest cattle
24 ranchers in Scurry County; and
25 WHEREAS, Mr. Mooar often regaled visitors with stories of his
26 exploits, and his recollections about buffalo hunting, published in
27 Holland's Magazine in 1933, have servea as a valuable resource for
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