3-pole Tipi Demonstration

When you see a tipi on the southern plains with perfect long, tapered pine lodge poles, have you ever wondered where they came from? These pines only grow in large numbers at high elevations in the mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. The nomadic Plains Tribes would follow the Bison north 800 miles or more in summer and harvest pine in the mountains during the only months the mountains were clear of snow. This Wyoming peak is called Medicine Bow. The origin of the name has been lost, but