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History: Mekaisto – Red Crow
Reprinted from the June 1952 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Mekaisto – Red Crow By John Laurie, Calgary, Alta. ‘If civilization can tame the buffalo so that they are like cattle, the lesson is one that I shall not forget easily.” When Mekaisto – Red Crow – Head Chief of the Bloods was on tour to Eastern Canada, he was shown the tame buffalo as […] Read more

Indian court acquits six in cow vigilante case
New Delhi | Reuters — An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street. The 2017 attack on Pehlu Khan and his two […] Read more

History: They Fight to the Finish
Reprinted from the March 1947 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
They Fight to the Finish By Mary Terrill, Medicine Hat, Alta. ‘His huge paw on the carcass of the buffalo calf he had just slain, the old grizzly monarch of the Cypress Hills roared his defiance at the calf’s bellowing mother and proceeded to drag off his quarry to the safety of the tall timber […] Read more

History: Hybrids
Reprinted from the November 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Hybrids By E. J. “Bud” Cotton, 2022-27th St. S.W., Calgary, Alta. ‘A hybrid is the offspring resulting from a cross between two inbred species, strains or types within a family or genera, i.e. horse and donkey, cattle or buffalo. A hybrid does not breed true. Crossing hybrids results in a wide variation of the type […] Read more

History: Wolves
By H.A. Riviere, Pincher Creek, Alta. Reprinted from the October 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
I will relate some facts about range conditions way back in 1884. Although the calves and colts in the Cypress Hills Country were never weaned and the buffalo on which the wolf packs fed were no more, I have no recollection of any damage done to stock by wolves on my range at that time. […] Read more

The last buffalo?
History pages from the June 1948 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Last Buffalo? W. Henry McKay ‘In the December, 1947, issue of Canadian Cattlemen, Mr. C.D. LaNauze, police magistrate of Lacombe, Alta., asked his readers to tell when the last wild buffalo were killed on the western plains; so here is my effort to answer his query. Samuel McKay, who was my father, held the distinction of […] Read more
Bone Pile Butte
Pages of history from Canadian Cattlemen, Sept. 1948
Bone Pile Butte By E.J. (Bud) Cotton, Calgary, Alta. ‘”Bone Pile Butte” situated in the old Buffalo Park at Wainright, Alberta, just a few miles east of Battle River, could tell stories of great buffalo herds and Indian hunters if it could only speak; of buffalo herds that roamed the Alberta Plains in the distant […] Read more
Eighty Years on the Plains: Part 7
October 1949: Marie Rose Smith chronicles her personal experiences of life on the Prairies
Eighty Years on the Plains by Marie Rose Smith Marie dedicates chapter 11 to Kootenai Brown, a close friend and wanderer who loved the open Plains. Described as a “ladies’ man,” Smith tells the story of how Brown lost his first wife to illness and how he nearly lost his second wife, Ni-ti-mous, to his […] Read more