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wacojoe
Can you imagine herds of those creatures so vast our first trains in their natural range were reportedly stopped for a few days as their millions passed over the tracks. I always had trouble picturing that.
Nothing so dramatic as that, but my wife and I were in Yellowstone after an early snow storm. The park had been closed due to deep snow. We were in Bozeman Montana and I heard on the morning news that they had reopened the main north south road---we took off! That afternoon we encountered a large herd of buffalo who had figured out walking on the plowed road was far better than wading in the snow. Since they were in front of us we had a grand view of the wrong end of the entire herd---and they were not the least bit intimidated by our presence. After probably 10 minutes of watching them demonstrate their concern I said to me wife---they seem close enough to cows that I am going to treat them like cows. I put the window down, took my hat off and hung out the window hollering like a herder---and they did respond, first by picking up the pace and then eventually veering off into the woods 
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