If you can find a copy of John Palliser's 'Solitary Rambles, and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies’ 1853 - it's a great read. This is the same Palliser, of 'The Palliser Expedition - 1857-1860', that surveyed the Canadian West and declared a large swath of southern Saskatchewan and Alberta a 'desert waste-land, not suitable for habitation'. This region is still called 'The Palliser Triangle'.
Solitary Rambles, is a superb book with lots of bison, elk, deer and grizzly hunting, and an interesting perspective of the different native tribes of the times.
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