The Triple U Buffalo Ranch is a ranch in northern

Stanley County, South Dakota Stanley County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,980. Its county seat is Fort Pierre. The county was created in 1873, and was organized in 1890. It is named for David S. Stanley, a comma ...

. Formerly known as Standing Butte Ranch, it was used for location shooting in the 1990 movie ''

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'' and

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's 1994 film '' Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee''. The ranch runs a closed herd of about 2,000

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and offers trophy hunts for bison as well as several other indigenous species. The ranch was owned by L. Roy Houck.

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purchased the ranch in 2015.

References

External links

Historical web site with movie references
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