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Frontier Village and National Buffalo Museum

  • January 12, 2006
  • Rated 4 of 5 by kwasiak from Tucson, Arizona
Frontier Village and National Buffalo Museum

The National Buffalo Museum and surrounding attractions are located just off I-94 in Jamestown, ND. Attractions include the World’s Largest Buffalo Monument, Frontier Village, and live buffalo.

We did not actually go inside of the National Buffalo Museum, but we did visit the gift shop inside the building. It was kind of interesting to look at the stuff for sale. There were all kinds of buffalo souvenirs to the traditional postcards and magnets to buffalo shaped car freshener. You can see some of what the Prairie Winds Gift Shop has to offer at its website (www.buffalomuseum.com).

Frontier Village is a preserved Old West prairie town. Most, if not all, of the buildings are authentic buildings preserved and brought together from different parts of the state of North Dakota. When it is not winter you can ride stagecoaches and ponies. You can also go inside most of the buildings during the non-winter months. Even though you cannot go inside the buildings in the winter it is still fun to walk around and peak inside the windows. My favorite building was the post office. Inside you can see some original Post Office Boxes that were used in Windsor, ND from 1894 to 1975. The building itself was once a small tar paper covered home.

The most outstanding thing here is the World’s Largest Buffalo statue. It was sculpted in 1959 by Elmer Paul Peterson. It measures 46 feet long, 26 feet high, and 14 feet wide. It weighs 60 tons.

From journal Reliving Old Memories in North Dakota

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