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Quirky FunWorld's Largest Buffalo Monument
No admission feeStand beneath Dakota Thunder, a 26-foot-tall, 60-ton concrete bison that has watched over Jamestown's Frontier Village since 1959.
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North American Bison Discovery Center
See two small bison herds, galleries on bison history and the 26-foot World's Largest Buffalo statue next door in Jamestown.
500 17th St SE · Jamestown, ND
About North American Bison Discovery Center
Formerly the National Buffalo Museum, this center at Frontier Village tells the story of the North American bison and its comeback from fewer than a thousand animals in the late 1800s. Galleries cover bison in history, Indigenous peoples and bison, modern artwork and the Buffalo Hall of Fame, and kids get a Bison Calf Play Area. Two small herds graze on both sides of Interstate 94, and the 26-foot World's Largest Buffalo statue stands nearby.
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