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The Official Bison Herd of Texas freely roams the 12,000 acres in Caprock Canyon State. Rancher Charles Goodnight and his wife Mary realized that the buffalo would soon face extinction.  The Goodnights rescues two buffalo calves in 1878.  Mary even bottle-fed the babies.  The orphans thrived on three gallons of mild a day and the herd eventually grew to several hundred.  In 1997 the remaining herd was given to the State of Texas and rounded up from the JA Ranch.  Today one can visit the descendants of those bison who once roamed the Texas Plains.

 

Caprock Canyon State Park

Briscoe County, Texas

2.8.2015