The buffalo in North America were saved by a few rescued buffalo calves in Montana. The man had saved the calves from a pack of wolves. He built up the herd and...
In 1909 fifteen railway cars of buffalo were brought to Camp Wainwright. 190 buffalo. 75 buffalo from the Banff were sent to Camp Wainwright before the Montana buffalo arrived.
In 1923 Wainwright Holywood movie makers filmed a buffalo stampede and hunt there. The buffalo had rebounded enough by 1923 that 26 buffalo were shot during the making of the movie.
The silent movie was called, "The Last Frontier" released in 1926.
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The last free range buffalo to be killed in Western Canada met his death in 1886.
He had been wounded twice during that year but escaped, to meet his fate on the range of a couple of ranchers near the south branch of the Saskatchewan.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
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