re: The American Buffalo on LPB is worth watching.

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As someone who grew up with a pet buffalo, it's always cool to see stories like this. My dad always had an affinity for the old West growing up, and I guess our buffalo was just the cherry on the top lol

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stories about your pet Buffalo? What was its name? Was it a good cuddler?

I've had a few opportunities to sit and photography bison out in Grand Teton NP. It's amazing how agile and fast these animals are especially given their size. I was sitting alone one morning watching a heard of about 300-400, and saw one next to a fence about 4 feet high, and from a standstill it easily jumped over the fence.

I'll never understand why people think they can just walk up to a bison and pet it with no consequences.

A few photos I've taken of Bison:

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On a personal note they mention buffalo bill in series, my G grandpa saw Buffalo bill at an show in buffalo ny, i remember seeing the notice as a boy and asking him about it. Ya csb

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Buffalo Bill visited the house my wife grew up in. It was a great great something or other who lived there at the time and knew him. There was an account of the visit in the local newspaper.

We did a ranch vacation in northern Colorado once. On one of the rides, we went to a neighboring ranch where they had about 800 buffalo. It was pretty cool to see them grazing down in the valley.

It was also pretty cool when the wrangler's horse backed into the electric fence designed to keep the buffalo from wandering. The wrangler was opening a gate and the horse backed up a bit too far.

Never knew a horse could squeal and jump like that. MJ would have been proud.

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I don't know if you watched the show and saw the part about Teddy Roosevelt when they were talking about how he and other hunters in the late 1800's thought white men were becoming soft and hunting was a way to prove you're manly. But the woman made some comment about how he wanted to prove white supremacy and masculinity(I'm paraphrasing). Made it sound like it had nothing to do with what we did to the Indians.

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The part I saw was about how the US government rounded up Indian tribes, both Allie’s and foes alike, and live them off buffalo grazing lands and onto controlled reservations.

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If FAFO was a face

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BISON!!!!!

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BI'THON

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