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Wild West eccentric Buffalo' Jones was born here
From: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
Date: 20070520
Author:Bill Steinbacher-Kemp
During his long and remarkable life, Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones was known, at one time or another, as a Great Plains trailblazer, breeder of buffalo, Wild West showman, consort of European royalty, Arctic explorer and cowboy of the East African Serengeti.
Several years before his death, a nearly 70-year-old Buffalo Jones visited the New York estate of celebrated writer and publisher Elbert Hubbard. Both men grew up in McLean County, and Hubbard even claimed that his pioneer physician-father, Silas Hubbard, attended Jones' 1844 birth. According to Hubbard, the Jones farm was northeast of ...
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