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  1. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!jon
  3. From: jon@zeus.med.utah.edu (Jonathan Byrd)
  4. Subject: head-smashed-in buffalo jump
  5. Message-ID: <JON.92Sep8153141@zeus.med.utah.edu>
  6. Summary: pamphlet excerpt
  7. Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
  8. Organization: University of Utah
  9. Date: 8 Sep 92 15:31:41
  10. Lines: 16
  11.  
  12. THE FRIENDS OF HEAD-SMASHED-IN BUFFALO JUMP SOCIETY
  13. INVITE YOU TO VISIT HEAD-SMASHED-IN BUFFALO JUMP.
  14.  
  15. About 150 years ago, according to legend, a young brave wanted to
  16. witness the plunge of countless buffalo as his people drove them to
  17. their deaths over the sandstone cliffs.  Standing under the shelter of
  18. a ledge, like a man behind a waterfall, he watched the great beasts
  19. cascade past him.  But the hunt was unusually good that day, and as
  20. the bodies mounted, he became trapped between the animals and the
  21. cliff.  When his people came to do the butchering, they found him with
  22. his skull crushed by the weight of the buffalo.  Thus they named the
  23. place "head-smashed-in."
  24.  
  25. --
  26. jonathan byrd
  27. jon@apollo.med.utah.edu
  28.