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Updated: June 8, 2025

Sometimes in September severe frosts destroyed the corn. The first light powdering called "hunting snows" fell in October, and then the men of the Back Country set out on the chase. Their object was meat buffalo, deer, elk, bear-for the winter larder, and skins to send out in the spring by pack-horses to the coast in trade for iron, steel, and salt.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground