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<blockquote data-quote="Kathie in Thorp" data-source="post: 923531" data-attributes="member: 16769"><p>See the following link, third notation down I think. One of my uncles worked at the Nat'l Bison Range in MT for many years. I saw the "White Medicine" bull when I was young -- late 50's. I was able to ride one of the Range buffalo horses with him, on the Range, in the 80's. (Those are coooool horses. Not your cutting horse horses; they are fast and quick and are trained to stay clear.)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_buffalo" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_buffalo</a></p><p></p><p>But the story continues . . . At the Range, the directive was sent: the handlers were NOT to try to pro-create animals that were not the proper type. "Proper" is not the right word -- breed specific type. WHITE is not proper with bison. Nor are albino/albino marked elk. Both were at the Nat'l Bison Range in Moise, MT. Anyway . . . . . . After "Whitey," as he was known to the employees at the Range in MT was born, a directive was put out that, although he was an oddity and popular with tourists and Natives, HE WAS NOT type-specific, and NO efforts were to be made to re-create another one like him. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Wasn't long before one of the Range employees put Whitey in with his mother, and the next year she produced a totally albino bull calf -- white as white could be, and blind. They paired him with a young beef steer calf, that acted as his "guide dog." Eventually, the bison and beef calves went to a zoo on the east coast together, where (as I recall the story), the albino bison calf died from a wire in the gut problem. My uncle wrote a book about his life/times at the Nat'l Bison Range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathie in Thorp, post: 923531, member: 16769"] See the following link, third notation down I think. One of my uncles worked at the Nat'l Bison Range in MT for many years. I saw the "White Medicine" bull when I was young -- late 50's. I was able to ride one of the Range buffalo horses with him, on the Range, in the 80's. (Those are coooool horses. Not your cutting horse horses; they are fast and quick and are trained to stay clear.) [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_buffalo[/url] But the story continues . . . At the Range, the directive was sent: the handlers were NOT to try to pro-create animals that were not the proper type. "Proper" is not the right word -- breed specific type. WHITE is not proper with bison. Nor are albino/albino marked elk. Both were at the Nat'l Bison Range in Moise, MT. Anyway . . . . . . After "Whitey," as he was known to the employees at the Range in MT was born, a directive was put out that, although he was an oddity and popular with tourists and Natives, HE WAS NOT type-specific, and NO efforts were to be made to re-create another one like him. :D :D Wasn't long before one of the Range employees put Whitey in with his mother, and the next year she produced a totally albino bull calf -- white as white could be, and blind. They paired him with a young beef steer calf, that acted as his "guide dog." Eventually, the bison and beef calves went to a zoo on the east coast together, where (as I recall the story), the albino bison calf died from a wire in the gut problem. My uncle wrote a book about his life/times at the Nat'l Bison Range. [/QUOTE]
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