Show huge graveyard marks scene of bison drive mcintosh S D because a group of cheyenne indians chose late summer instead of fall for the great bison drive a buffalo graveyard exists n near ear here today which is so large it recently was mined for material for bone markets mrs jose joseph ph E waggoner of keldron whose mother was a member of sitting bulls famous command tells the story 0 of f tle the mass of bones and traces it to the years 1825 to 1835 at that time the cheyenne having driven other tribes from the dakota region only to be themselves forced westward by more powerful tribes decided on one last hunt accordingly they scattered and started driving herds of bison toward a high bluff on the grand river when the animals were milling near the bluff they were driven over the wounded dispatched and great quantities of meat removed from the carcasses the stack of bones slowly settled and consolidated making the bed which appears today in the cut bank of the river the state stopped the mining when it learned the graveyard was on publicly owned land |