Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Palliser was a wealthy Irish adventurer who entered Montana for the first time in 1847 along the Lower Yellowstone for sport hunting purposes. He spent most of the winter of 1847-48 hunting around Fort Union, although he made one extended trip along the Missouri River. The spring of 1848 he again ascended the Yellowstone River up to the Bighorn River for more hunting and fishing (Figure 11). During these excursions into Montana, he recorded a considerable amount of natural history notes; as a hunter, he especially focused his attention on the large mammals of this region.
Palliser, J. 1853. Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the
prairies. John Murray, London.
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
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