Our goal today was to find some caches in the Havre area, and visit the Buffalo Jump. We had pretty good luck with our geo-caching and saw some more fence post art. I think we saw the better ones yesterday, but it still amazes me, that Cory Holmes can come up with so many different pieces of art and places them all over the country. We went to the Buffalo Jump place and they were closed as of Labor Day Weekend. What a disappointment. It is called the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump (walk-pa-chew-gun) and is the most extensive and well preserved buffalo jump in the northern Great Plains. It was discovered by a Havre student, as he was exploring the bluffs at the edge of town, back in 1961. They claim that three different Native American groups used the site at various times in its 2,000 year history. They could tell that by the different types of projectile points that were used for hunting buffalo. The buffalo were rounded up and chased to this high cliff and run over the edge. When they fell, they were harvested for their hides and meat. We'll be ready to leave tomorrow for St. Mary's, MT and we will be at the east end of Glacier National Park. We have had beautiful weather, but they tell us, that it is about to change. As long as it isn't snow, we're okay with that. We're gearing up for the Badgers and Arizona State football soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment