"And all this a sea of grass, grass, grass, grass and grass. One looks around and sees only grass and sky", exulted Fritz Jaeger; who in 1907 was one of the first Europeans to visit the area.

. . . And the view described by Stewart White in 1913 in what is now the northern part of the park still exists today: "Never have I seen anything like that game. It covered every hill, standing in the openings, strolling in and out among groves, feeding on the bottom lands, singly, or in little groups. It did not matter in which direction I looked, there it was; as abundant one place as another"