What were they up to?

Kadizzle and The Commander headed east to the Missouri yesterday.  About a week ago The Commander made her annual solo float trip down the Missouri from the dam.  When she overnighted near Stanton she found an unusual pile of buffalo bones uncovered by the river.  There seemed to be an abundance of the bone from the hump on the back of the animal.

Kadizzle got roped into a return trip to check out the find.  This trip would be overland.  When the truck got as close as wheels would take us we headed by foot for the river.  Much of the riverside must be like it was back in the days of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and other occupants of the area. After we got to the river there were massive areas of dry sand. The flood from a couple years back really changed everything.  Only by walking on the sandbars can one see how much the river actually changes. Massive amounts of sand and soil get moved when the river gets angry.

Perhaps the river had uncovered some sort of old slaughter site.  Perhaps the animals were crossing and a lot of them got drowned in one spot.  Like the hundreds of Indian sites we visit there is always a question you just cannot answer.