THE LONE PRAIRIE

Come spring, about April or into May, a new crop of calves will be born and the process will begin again, at least for another couple of hundred years. Right now, in the 1600's, it's estimated there are between thirty million and fifty million Buffalo ranging from the mid-Mexico all the way up into Alaska. For now you can even find them over on the other side of the Rocky Mountains into the eastern edge of what will be Oregon Country, then all the way east nearly to the coast. But that won't last. The Indians, who are so dependent on the Buffalo, are estimated to be killing them at the rate of two million a year. And they will have lots of help as the years go buy, but that is another story we'll talk about when we return. There are a whole lot of other interesting creatures out here on the "Lone Prairie" to see.

To learn more about the buffalo on the Internet see: Friends of the Prairie Learning Center http://www.tallgrass.org/

Bison bison: Narrative http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ac...

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The major printed sources for this article are:

The Life of Prairies and Plains by Durward L. Allen, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1967.

The First Americans, Time-Life Books, 1992.

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