Western S.D. ‘Buffalo Buster’ took storied ride to the White House

  • ‘Dakota’ Clyde Jones and his wagon-trained buffalo team. He once tried to saddle an elk. It ended badly. Photo from Rapid City Journal
    ‘Dakota’ Clyde Jones and his wagon-trained buffalo team. He once tried to saddle an elk. It ended badly. Photo from Rapid City Journal
    A century ago this week, readers of the Rapid City Journal learned that “the only known ‘buffalo buster’ in the wide world” would be performing at the Alfalfa Palace Fair.What they didn’t know on that Aug. 28, 1925, morning was that the legend of world champion rider and longtime Custer State Park hand Clyde Jones was only beginning.In the years ahead, Jones wou...

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