
Saddle up, Buckaroo!
Custer State Park in Custer, South Dakota, hosts its annual Buffalo Roundup today.Ready your spurs and chaps, folks! Fifteen hundred bison will be separated and branded in preparation for an auction.
If you cannot get to South Dakota, then head on down to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's virtual ranch. Wrangle vicariously with our online buffalo roundup!
From our Web search page, lasso as many artworks as you can that depict the Plains-roaming beast. This expressive Buffalo by folk artist Mamie Deschille makes an amusing start.
Pictured: Mamie Deschillie, born 1920, Buffalo, 1987, paint, sequins, beads, and jewelry on cardboard, 35 x 38 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment.