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Buffalo Tips

October 2024
1min read

Mr. Block and his companion will not really have completed their odyssey (“Hunting Buffalo,” April) until they have been to Buffalo Bend, Nebraska. My family and I had the opportunity to learn more about the town of Buffalo Bend than we cared to when we were stranded there during a sudden winter blizzard in 1987.

Buffalo Bend is a barely measurable widening of Highway 30, just west of Potter, with a population of fewer than ten souls, including a wonderful couple who manages the restaurant (featuring chicken-fried buffalo steak).

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