Bonus: The Fall and Rise of the Buffalo - Travel South Dakota Stories Podcast

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you like Adventure Sports Podcast, then you'll love the Travel South Dakota Stories podcast. You can find their episodes anywhere you get podcasts. Today we're featuring The Fall and Rise of the Buffalo.

Feel the ground rumble and the dust fly as sixty cowboys and cowgirls saddle up to bring in a thundering herd of 1,300 buffalo at the 57th Annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup. But we’re not just watching it, we are in the thick of it as we get thrown around on the back of a truck chasing the herd across the wide-open plains. Listen to one of the riders Molly as she cracks her whip and corals the galloping beasts.

We also meet Lakota rider and manager of Bear Butte State Park, Jim Jandreau, who tells us what the buffalo means to the Lakota people.

At the end of the long and tiring ride we join Molly’s 87-year-old dad, who had just taken part in his 53rd roundup.

Along the way we discover that although the roundup harks back to a different time, the adventurous spirit of South Dakotans that has been a way of life for centuries still lives on. And that spirit is infectious.

“You’re experiencing what you see on TV and the old western movies, the buffalo roaming across the prairie like that. It's that old west tradition that you don't see anywhere else in the world.” – Matt Snyder, Superintendent of Custer State Park

More info about the Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup can be found at travelsouthdakota.com.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. Well, this is not the normal run of things. This is
0:05.9	a featured, kind of a feed drop where we're putting an episode that I think you're going to like
0:10.9	from a show called the Travel South Dakota Stories podcast. This show is produced by a friend of the
0:16.7	podcast, Aaron Miller. He's been a guest on before. He's getting ready to be a guest again.
0:21.5	And actually, we got to hang out last week in Colorado and have some beers. It was great.
0:25.7	Awesome person. So many adventurous stories. And he's producing this show. And so we wanted to
0:30.9	give a little shout out. Get you to check it out. It's very different because it's on location,
0:35.4	on the ground, like reporting style, and it's the fall and
0:39.2	rise of the Buffalo or the Bison in South Dakota. And they're going to be talking about this thing
0:44.6	called the Buffalo Roundup. If you want to check that out, it's actually going to be happening
0:49.4	September 29th. So next week, go check that out. I've got some links in the show notes. It would be so
0:55.1	cool to see in person. And if you're interested in checking out this show, the Travel South Dakota
1:00.3	Stories podcast, they do have some other episodes that you can check out, the Black Hills
1:04.5	and Deadwood and Legends in Stone. If you don't know, I have a pretty, to me, memorable and legendary story about being chased by a Buffalo on one of my bike trips.
1:15.3	I'm pretty stoked about this story.
1:17.0	Aaron and his team did a fantastic job.
1:19.6	And again, check out the Travel South Dakota Stories Podcast.
1:23.2	You can find it anywhere you get podcasts.
1:25.0	And you can check out Travelsouthakota.com to learn more.
1:28.9	So enjoy.
1:33.5	All right.
1:38.6	All right, we're true.
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