UPDATES

Feb. 21 - 22
Picked up Thunder

Feb. 28 - 29
Removed primer and prepped surface for new primer.

March 1- 20
I had to stop working on Thunder for a few weeks due to a family emergency.

March 21- 28
Added fiberglass support and wire mesh to form.

April 1- 5
Adding clay to the head

April 6 - 12
Almost done adding the clay and ready to prime and then paint soon.

May 7
I have made great progress, in the last few weeks, 14 days until delivery of the buffalo’s.

May 12
One week until we head up to Custer, we still have more to do, but getting closer.

May 22
We delivered the buffalo, and now he will remain in Custer until the auction in late September.

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On one side the buffalo displays a map of the Pony Express mail service crossing the North American continent from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 1860 to October 1861. Within the map will be pictures of men who were involved in the Pony Express mail service, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, and Johnny Fry. Also on the map will show wagon trains, buffalo herds, steam boat ferries and scenery along the route.

The other side depicts one pony express rider who gets caught up in a buffalo stampede, during a thunderstorm. The only way that this rider could tell what direction he was riding was by the way the rain was hitting him in the face, with this, he was able to ride his way to the edge of the stampede to safety.

The buffalo is standing on a butte rock formation, made from a light weight concrete material.