SELF GUIDED TOUR

Visit each of our Historic Buffalo Sites. Email us and let us know which site you visited to earn a seal for your Self-guided Tour book,

Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes.

Site 1: Grandest of All
Hornaday in 1880s mounted buffalo for museums so visitors would have a chance to view them.

Site 3: Last Stand of the Buffalo
Visualize the Last Stand of Buffalo, as hunted by Sitting Bull and his band, Oct 12-13, 1883.

Site 5: Saving Five Calves
Join the Native Duprees coming in a buckboard wagon to rescue calves on the River Grande.

Site 7: Blacktail Trail Lore
Learn how Native people honored the buffalo in their culture—on a 7-mile walking loop.

Site 9: Homecoming for Tribal Herds
Visit a nearby Tribal buffalo herd. Check out the reality of pecking order, respected by each.

Site 2: Hiddenwood Hunt
Ride with Dakota hunters and see great herds of buffalo grazing hills and grasslands.

Site 4: Slim Buttes Hunt
Camp with Lakota hunters thru bitter winter of 1880-1881 as buffalo suddenly arrived in Slim Buttes.

Site 6: Shadehill Buffalo Jump
Imagine across the face of this cliff, from 7000 years ago, 16 ft thick of buffalo bones.

Site 8: Buffalo Behavior
There’s nothing like buffalo up close—but it takes care; they turn on a dime—fast, dangerous.

Site 10: National Bison Museum in Jamestown, ND
Shoot a family pose with the world’s largest buffalo. Enjoy art, White Cloud in full mount.

Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes takes you to 10 sites of historic and current buffalo events, all within a relatively small area of rugged buttes and badlands at the center of the northern plains. Relive the excitement of the last great buffalo hunts by Lakota and Dakota Sioux people, ancient buffalo jumps, the Native rescue of 5 calves that changed history, and restoration of buffalo herds on tribal lands, private ranches and public parks. Softcover, full color, 6”x 9” format. Click here to purchase your copy for your trip to the historic sites. $14.95 plus shipping, handling and sales tax or $9.99 for e-Book.

Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains, a large companion book for those who choose to dive deeper into the buffalo experience. It is truly an American story and an Indian story. With a wealth of history, stories and events, you’ll learn even more about the majestic beast so closely entwined with the American experience, both Native and non-Native. Buffalo Heartbeats explains in detail the rest of the story and how it played out across the Great Plains and prairies of North America. A beautiful book, richly illustrated. Hardcover, full-color, 8 1/2" x 9 1/2" format. $34.95 plus shipping, handling and sales tax or $19.99 for e-Book.