“Just don’t do anything stupid.” That’s either the safety lesson or motivational speech driver Bert Winchester has just given three other journalists and me before we pile into the back of a pickup and prepare to join an armada of trucks, SUVs, the South Dakota governor, 57 riders on horseback and thousands of spectators from across the world. Oh, and more than 1,000 bison. Make that buffalo. After all, this is the annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup in the scenic Black Hill


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