Near Glasgow in Valley County, Montana — The American West (Mountains)

Buffalo Country

June 20, 2026

1. Buffalo Country Marker

Inscription. The Great Plains of eastern Montana was home to thousands of buffalo before Euro-American hunters nearly wiped them out in the early 1880's. The animals were central to the Indian lifeway. In the dog days, hunters herded buffalo into a corral where they killed them. They also stampeded the shaggy beasts over cliffs, called pishkuns. With the arrival of the horse in the 1700's, hunting methods changed. As much a sport as a necessity, hunting buffalo with bows and arrows on horseback was dangerous and exciting.

Fat buffalo cow was the choice meat. Women preserved the meat by making jerky and pemmican. They made pemmican of dried and pulverized meat mixed with marrow bone grease and oil. Wild berries gave it flavor; the ascorbic acid in the fruit acted as a preservative. Pemmican, packed away in skin bags, kept indefinitely. In food value, one pound of pemmican equaled ten pounds of fresh meat. This staple sustained the tribes through many long winters when fresh meat was unavailable.

Indians used tanned robes and rawhide for clothes, tepees, bedding, tools and utensils. Buffalo figured prominently in religious practices

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and disputes over prime hunting grounds frequently caused intertribal conflicts.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Animals • Indigenous Peoples and Communities.

Location. 48° 16.861′ N, 106° 42.224′ W. Marker is near Glasgow, Montana, in Valley County. It is on U.S. 2 2 miles south of Nelson Road, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Glasgow MT 59230, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Montana’s Missouri River Country.

It is also in the American Mountain West,

in the Lewis & Clark Corridor,

on the prairies,

on the Great Plains,

and specifically on the Northern Plains.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once Rupert’s Land

and also the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 7 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: V. F. W. Post 3107 Memorial (approx. 5.8 miles away); The Old Milk River Bridge and Tampico

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2. Buffalo Country Marker

(approx. 5.8 miles away); Boulder Carvings (approx. 6 miles away); First National Bank of Glasgow (approx. 6.7 miles away); Glasgow, MT (approx. 7 miles away); The Ice Ages (approx. 7.4 miles away); Liquid Gold (approx. 7.4 miles away).

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3. Buffalo Country Marker

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4. Buffalo Country Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on August 6, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 5, 2026. This page has been viewed 20 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 5, 2026.