New Blog launches ‘Buffalo Tales & Trails

HETTINGER, ND – “Buffalo Tales & Trails,” a new Blog and website focusing on America’s new national mammal, the bison, or buffalo, will launch May 5. Subscriptions are available free at www.buffalotalesandtrails.com.

The blog is written by Francie M. Berg, author of 3 books on buffalo. Her latest book “Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains” published in 2018 by the Dakota Buttes Visitors Council in Hettinger, ND, won three national awards.
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In order to make sure of receiving every online issue, interested persons will need to request a free subscription, which they may cancel at any time.

A new issue of Buffalo Tales & Trails will deliver every Tuesday, with a fresh Blog and “Story of the Week,” as well as news items. The first Blog post will be an introduction and welcome. The second issue focuses on the perplexing question: Buffalo vs Bison—what shall we call them?

The first story of the week, Noble Fathers rescue Newborn Calf, highlights the way bulls protect buffalo cows and calves against wolf threats. The second, Buffalo Hunting Accident tells the personal story of Bears Arm, a second chief of the Hidatsa, who risked his life in a hunt striving for the largest bull hide.

The buffalo blog is made to order for teachers of American History and their students, especially Native American youth, and is also aimed at “everyone with a soft spot in their heart for buffalo,” from parents and grandparents to such experts as Native American tribal buffalo managers to Park rangers and buffalo ranchers.

The author, Francie M. Berg is a teacher, historian and author of 17 books, with strong homestead and ranching roots in the Old West. Born at home in the Missouri River Breaks, she grew up on a Montana ranch and lives in Hettinger ND, within a few miles of her grandparents’ South Dakota homestead and the center of a fascinating buffalo heritage of which she writes.

Berg has worked as a county extension agent, and taught high school, college and adult education. A licensed nutritionist and graduate of Montana State University in Bozeman, she has a master’s degree in Family Social Studies and Anthropology from the U. of Minnesota. For over 35 years she has been researching buffalo, read widely on the subject, visited many public, commercial and tribal herds, talked and visited with bison ranchers, climbed US and Canadian buffalo jumps in the Rocky Mountains and wrote three books about the buffalo.

The blog is interactive and readers are encouraged to share comments, questions and their own buffalo stories. For more information visit the website or contact the author at fmberg@ndsupernet.com.

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