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Old 08-23-2016, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Red Bullets View Post
By the mid to late 1870's the buffalo were wiped out. Until 1905 the dominant political idea was just to perpetuate hunting and not improve it. Hunting was thought of as something that would eventually disappear.
guy weadic (<?sp) started the Calgary stampede exhibition as a way of preserving (what he thought) was a disappearing way of life.

This is his house in Calgary on 5th street sw, cliff bungalow neighborhood.
the house beside the lane;

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.03388...7i13312!8i6656
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