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fare of sowbelly and biscuit, we happily ate virtually anything we could at every
opportunity. The following is a paragraph recorded at the end of a commonplace
day: “After our usually 3 beers apiece and a bag of chips we went out to eat —
twice. After a meal of steak, shrimp, baked potato, salad, vegetable, garlic bread
and pie, we were still hungry. So we walked downtown and ended up at the Circle
S Barbecue where we each had a beef bq sandwich, baked beans, fries, and cherry
cobbler a la mode. Tm finally full, but not stuffed by any means.”
Early settlers wrote about the extensive buffalo herds and the occasional di
sastrous encounter with the woolly beasts. Catherine Sager, in 1844, lost her mother
to camp fever and saw her father caught up in a buffalo stampede and killed when
he tried to turn the great beasts from his w agon.O ur only contact with the beast
was between two pieces of bread — when we devoured the “buffalo burgers” so
commonplace in Nebraska and Wyoming. Despite no tangles w