The fun of surveying and placing pits and mound corners in Nebraska during the 1870's. Another deputy wrote that the buffalo were using his corners as play things as soon as they moved away from them.
> Another deputy wrote that the buffalo were using his corners as play things as soon as they moved away from them.
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It appears that buffalo were the 1800's equivalent of our current big yellow machines. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
The term bison wallow just doesn't have quite the same impact.
Nearly 20 years ago I did a road survey with cross-sections every 100 feet for 100 feet both left and right along the six mile long project. In my notes accompanying the data provided to the firm designing the final road plan I used the term "hog wallow" to describe one area near a section corner just outside of the existing r-o-w but within the to-be-acquired r-o-w. One of their guys called for clarification. I told him to take a look on his next site visit. A few days later he called back to inform me that he now knew precisely what I had meant.
> Another deputy wrote that the buffalo were using his corners as play things as soon as they moved away from them.
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better the corner than him---
