Today as we were Heading through the northern plains of America we were amazed at the almost innumerable amounts of buffalo grazing on the grass in huge herds. As Captain Lewis said "the country in every direction around us was one vast plain in which innumerable amounts of buffalo were seen attended by their Shepperd's the wolves..." The buffalo can weigh up to twenty-four hundred pounds and are as long as thirteen feet long from nose to tail. The animals massive heads have two short black horns that curve upward covered with thick woolly hair. As we also found out buffalo are surprisingly easy to take down with a rifle. A hunter with a rifle could easily take down a grazing buffalo and skin and cook the meat for food. The plains native Americans showed us how to use every last part of the buffalo and how to make many delicacy's from the buffalo. The buffalo intestines could be cleaned and then used to make white pudding which Captain Lewis proclaimed "one of the greatest delicacy's in the forest." The buffalo also provided a bug repellent which would protect against the mosquito's and small flies, we burned buffalo dry dung to make smokes. To the left is a painting of some grazing buffalo.
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