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November 1, 2003
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Great Plains, United States
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Early 1900s
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Edward S. Curtis
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"People tend to envision the Plains Indians [such as the man shown here] as cultures on horseback, traveling those grand open spaces atop painted ponies and running down buffalo at full gallop. . . . Hunters often concealed themselves beneath buffalo hides. In certain places, one would try to mingle with a herd and get them moving in the direction he chose. If they followed, this decoy—called a buffalo runner—would pick up speed until the herd was racing behind him. . . . other hunters closed in from the sides and rear to funnel the panicked animals onward toward a cliff."
—Text from the National Geographic book Enduring America, 1995
(Photograph from the National Geographic book Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light, 2001)
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