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Prairie Indians hunted buffalo by forcing the herds onto marshland, snowbanks, thin ice, or over cliffs — one of these nasty surprises being known to this day as the Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump, near Fort MacLeod, Alberta.
The herds give a sense of proportion to the vast openness, just as the scattered farmhouses and characteristic drystone walls add reassuring warmth to even the loneliest valley.
The best thinking now is that this was a bad idea, because it destroyed any incentive Africans might have to nurture and protect the elephant herds.
In spring, before the tourists arrive, goats and sheep give birth and their herds head out to the open pasture; a little later, the grain crop is harvested.
A Friar Dominguez is quoted by Adrian H. Bustamente in Santa Fe--History of an Ancient City as describing the villa in 1776, the year of American independence from British rule, as consisting of “many small ranches at various distances from one another, with no plan as to their location, for each owner built as he was able, wished to, or found convenient, now for the little farms they have there, now for small herds of clattle which they keep in corrals of stakes, or else for other reasons.”