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Episode 6 of Buffalo Days features a dramatic buffalo stampede triggered by a prairie storm, highlighting the dangers faced by hunters.

Send us Fan Mail In episode 6 of Buffalo Days, the narrative opens with a sudden and intense prairie storm that triggers a massive buffalo stampede. As lightning strikes and kills a bull in the herd, the animals scatter in panic, threatening to crush the hunters and their heavily loaded supply wagons. The men are forced to make a desperate run through the blinding rain and mud, barely escaping the thundering herd when the storm runoff carves out a massive rut in the earth, redirecting the buf...

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Hosts: Michael King, Brad Smalley

Topics covered

• buffalo stampede
• prairie storm
• hunting
• survival
• nature
• wildlife

Keywords

• buffalo
• storm
• stampede
• hunters
• supply wagons
• prairie
• nature

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Places: prairie, earth

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