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Home On The Range

9-16-2008

These buffalo are part of a herd about six miles outside of town. It is hard to imagine that one hundred and forty years ago their numbers were in the millions. In our area there were herds so large that they covered the prairie as far as a person could see. They were methodically exterminated as a means to control the Native Americans living on the Great Plains. By the early 1900's there were only a few thousand remaining. (Best Viewed Large)

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Uploaded on October 22, 2008
Taken on September 16, 2008