Jamestown Buffalo

Jamestown Buffalo

Featured in Town Giants – Sep 13th, 2009

Location: Jamestown, North Dakota
Height: 26 feet
Length: 46 feet
Weight: 60 tons
Construction Materials: steel beams, wire mesh, stucco, and cement
Special Designation: World’s Largest Buffalo
Year Built: 1959

Jamestown Buffalo was the first true giant roadside sculpture built in North Dakota.
The World’s Largest Buffalo was the brainchild of then Jamestown Chamber President Harold Newman and was created by Jamestown College art instructor Elmer Paul Peterson. It was fabricated out of 8 inch steel beaming, 3/8 inch reinforcing rod, 1/4 inch wire mesh, and gunnite (sprayed cement).
The buffalo was officially dedicated by Presidential Candidate Nelson Rockefeller in October of 1959.

In 1965, “Frontier Village”, an old west town, was built next to the World’s Largest Buffalo sculpture. Some of the sights at Frontier Village include a grocery store, wishing well, Midland and Northern Pacific caboose, school house, church, barber shop, jail house, mine shaft, printing shop, post office, train depot, log cabin, art salon, souvenir shop, and fire department with three old fire trucks.

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