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Date: | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:40:36 EST |
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... what you BPers are missing, talking about thiotropic ripple glass and
pantile history:
>> I've had an inquiry about the origin of the name of Buffalo, New
>> York. George Stewart asserts that the name comes from Buffalo Creek,
>> which in turn came from an Indian named Buffalo. Kelsie Harder offers
>> three possibilities: (1) old bones, possibly elk, moose, or wild cattle;
>> (2) a derivation from French beau fleuve 'beautiful river'; or (3), as
>> in Stewart, from an Indian by that name. Harder also says that there
>> were never any buffalo (i.e., bison) in that area, a statement I doubt.
Ken, if there were never any buffalo near buffalo, does that mean there
weren't broncs in the Bronx?
Signed, Lonesome Cowboy
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