nope but with in a couple hundred mile circle
cjhsa hurry up I need a nap
Billings or Great Falls.
husker, Go rest; this can wait.
neither - in the morning - nite
anyone awake or you guys give up?
Teddy Roosevelt National Park?
Indians of the Northern Plains didn't get horses until the early 1800's. before that for 2,000 years resourceful tribes devised a simple way to provide their food, clothing, shelter and tools often without firing a single arrow or bullet, or even giving chase to the prey.
Is that Ruby Ridge? Nope
Teddy Roosevelt National Park? Nope
yes
23 miles west of Bozeman on I-90 at Logan exit, then 7 miles south on Buffalo Jump Road.
History: Although Lewis and Clark never visited the site of Madison Buffalo Jump during their exploration of the Missouri Headwaters, they probably did witness the aftermath of a buffalo stampede. On May 29, 1805, Lewis, near what would be named Slaughter River, speculated about one scene he described:
"Today we passed on the Stard. Side the remains of a vast many mangled carcasses of Buffalow which had been driven over a precipice of 120 feet by the Indians and perished; the water appeared to have washed away a part of the immence pile of slaughter and still their remained the fragments of at least a hundred carcasesÂ…they created a most horrid stench. In the manner the Indians of the Missouri distroy vast herds of buffaloe at a stroke; for this purpose one of the most active and fleet young men is scelected and disguised in a robe of buffaloe skin, having also the skin of the buffaloe's head with the years and horns fastened on his head in form of a capÂ…all shew themselves at the same time moving towards the buffaloe."
It is very unlikely that the scene Lewis described was a deliberate bison kill. To leave so many bison carcasses to rot was against every practice of the Plains Indians. It is more likely that the bison had simply stampeded by themselves, or drowned. In describing one phase of the buffalo hunt, however, he is both vivid and accurate.
Horses weren't introduced to the Indians of the Northern Plains until the early 18th century. At least 2,000 years ago, the ever-resourceful tribes devised a simple way to provide their food, clothing, shelter and tools often without firing a single arrow or bullet, or even giving chase to the prey. At what is now called Madison Buffalo Jump, the Blackfeet, Salish, Shoshone, and possibly other tribes gathered their families around this precipice. They then would herd bison nearer and nearer the cliff, until they could stampede the animals, forcing them to fall to the ground below.
Once the animals had fallen to their deaths the families camped below the cliff went to work. After the bison had been butchered for their meat, their skins and horns were harvested for tipis, hides, blankets, and tools. The horns were made into spoons and tools, as were the bones. It took an average of 18 hides to make one tipi, with larger ones using as many as 30. Any meat that wasn't needed immediately was dried on long racks to make jerky. The meat kept for a whole season and was sometimes mixed with berries and carried in pouches for emergency provisions on long winter hunts.
There is a similar place in Alberta, Canada called Head Smashed In...the Indians did the same there
Not sure about the Montana place yet...
wow, that looks quite desolate though?
Intrepid
we has a ski resort here called 49Degrees North
CJ - much of Montana does look like that
