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Says Jo Mora in Trail Dust and Saddle Leather, “It made a good hot fire in dry weather, though when too wet it did not burn so readily, all of which scarcely added to the sweet temper or the efficiency of the cook.” It’s also called euphemistically babcock coal, prairie chip, prairie coal, prairie fuel,
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During the great western migration, the entire Great Plains region was covered with buffalo chips--they were unavoidable. And yes, kids occasionally tossed them about in a frisbee-like manner. But the chips had a much more practical purpose for the emigrants--they were burned for fuel.
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The other day, I was reminded of the fact that many cultures use dried cow, yak and buffalo manure as fuel. I was wondering: Can the feces of other species ... Steer manure from feedlots has also been considered and tested as a fuel source, as have buffalo chips, but I know of no large-scale commercial efforts.
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Pioneers Find Wet Buffalo Chips Are Not Good As Cooking Fuel ... Feed was good, but wood remained scarce. The camp consensus: Buffalo dung does not burn well when wet. Said Egan, "This morning I baked some bread and fried some antelope meat, made coffee and had a very good breakfast...all cooked with wet buffalo chips."
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Furs, Hair, and Tails; Buffalo Hides, Ermine Hides, Horse Hair, Otter Hides, Rabbit Hides, More... ... Tobacco; Kinnekinnick Tobacco, Buffalo Chips Herbal Tobacco, Cloth Bagged Tobaccos, Smoking Ingredients, More...
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Chart of the uses of the buffalo ... DLV: Animals and the Expedition--The Buffalo; We explore the important role the bison played in the life of the American Indian as we see artifacts made from the buffalo and view footage of the bison on the plains. ... O. Buffalo Chips - fuel, signals, ceremonial smoking...
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Buffalo Chip to Provo Housing Authority for skipping due diligence when it acquired the Maser Elementary School. The authority purchased the block on which the school sits and planned to build ... Beehive to the LDS Church for joining the fight against Private Fuel Storage's plan to store nuclear waste in Skull Valley.
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; Informal. the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, esp. by early settlers on the western plains. ... buffalo bird ... buffalo cloth...
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Many of the pioneer companies were very dependent on an important buffalo by-product, the "buffalo chips" - dried excrement, which were gathered for cooking fires when wood was scarce. ... "Crossing the prairie there was no fuel other than buffalo chips with which to cook our little meals of bread and meat.
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