Banjo Paterson, Australia's great writer from the turn of the century and thereabouts, visited the Territory in 1898 and spent some time with buffalo hunters to see how the real men of the Territory lived. These were larger-than-life characters.
The reports indicated that Banjo did go out and have a crack at hunting, but he enjoyed being with buffalo hunters more than buffalo hunting.
Banjo Paterson's “Buffalo Country” poem
Out where the grey streams glide,
Sullen and deep and slow,
And the alligators slide,
From the mud to the depths below,
Or drift on the stream like a floating death,
Where the fever comes on the south wind's breath,
There is the buffalo.