Location
Buffalo Ridge is in Murray County The highest land in this county, extending about two miles along the crest of the Coteau des Prairies in the central part of Chanarambie, is called Buffalo Ridge, in translation of its Dakota name. It rises 100 to 200 feet above the lowest adjoining valleys. On its highest knoll the Dakota had delineated various animals by"series of boulder outlines, mostly formed of small stones. The best preserved of these figures apparently represents a buffalo. . . . It heads to the northeast, and its greatest length is nearly 12 feet" (T. H. Lewis, in the American Anthropologist, July 1890, quoted in The Aborigines of Minnesota, 1911, pages 106-8, with a diagram of the buffalo outline). From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.
