Buffalo Chips – Bison Dung

Buffalo Chips- what are they used for?   In these snippets of articles, you will find how popular the buffalo chips were and how very important they were to the…

Shoshone

…the recent revolt. / The Daily Times Davenport, Iowa, Aug 23, 1895 ABOUT THE BANNOCKS. The Indians Who Have Been Giving the Government Trouble. A Warlike Tribe That Is a…

Charles Goodnight Bison Herd

…a role in this story. The Comanche, the Apache, and the Kiowa roamed vast parts of this state. Fort Griffin in Albany, an early military outpost built to protect settlers…

Wind Cave National Park

…as far as Missouri Valley, Iowa. While this greatly facilitated the rapid handling of the cars through terminals, it worked somewhat of a hardship on the attendants; but fortunately, foreseeing…

Last of the Bison by State

…and part of Iowa. (okhistory.org) The last buffalo in Oklahoma County was killed in March , 1876 , and the animals were rarely seen east of the Chisholm Trail after…

1919

…Hills, in South Dakota, five years ago. According to recent reports, they were multiplying most satisfactorily. / Adams Country Free Press, Iowa, Dec 20 1919 F.A. Savage, ……an enterprising meat…

1885

…business for them. In 1815 the buffalo ranges extended as far east as Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa: in short, the Mississippi River Mark the eastern boundary of their grazing grounds….

C.J. Jones -“Buffalo Jones”

…and zoological collections, while a few later turned up in the Frank Rockefeller herd out in Kiowa county and the Goodnight herd in the Teas Panhandle -Wellington Monitor Press  …

1922

…a thing of the past / Quad City Times Davenport Iowa July 16, 1922 BISON HERDS INCREASE The buffalos that live on American nickels no longer represent the last herd…

Scotty Phillips’

…Free Press Corning, Iowa Dec, 24. 1919 “RIDE’EM COWBOY.” In answer to many personal inquiries as to how it came about the Tinsley Film Company went to South Dakota last…