Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear Authors
   
 
 
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  The Red Canyon herd contains some of the most outstanding female bison in the world, including Baily, the world's most valuable female buffalo. Our cows come from the finest herds in the United States and Canada.
Our bison come from herds including Rock Creek Ranch, Clair Side Bison, Trails End River Bison, Colvine Bison Farm, Sayersbrook Bison, 1880 Bison Ranch, Custer State Park, and Hot Springs State Park. Most of our females are trophy winners from either Denver, Regina, or Rapid City. A few who aren't were animals that we thought the judges were crazy to have missed, like Rumbler, a Colvine cow; her son won a bronze trophy as a yearling bull at the 2001 Rapid City show.
 

Dakota Bill's Daughters

Rock Creek Ranch in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, is home to three of our award-winning cows. These sisters are out of Rock Creek Ranch's outstanding cows, all by the legendary Grand Champion, "Dakota Bill."

Dakota Bill only sired one generation, and in doing so placed Rock Creek Ranch at the pinnacle of the bison industry. They have won the coveted "Producer of the Year" award at the GTSS twice. An accident deprived the world of Dakota Bill, but Red Canyon Ranch owns two of Bill's seven daughters: Godiva and Bailie.

Godiva



Godiva was an Honorable Mention yearling in 1999. She currently weighs in at 1350 pounds as a four year old. For 2001 she has provided us with a sturdy bull calf.

Bailie

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Bailie, "the world's most valuable female bison" earned her distinction through outstanding length and a robust frame. Her first calf, Two Hearts, was sired by the Grand Champion, Colonel Cyprus. Two Hearts weighed 803 pounds at twelve months of age. Bailie's 2001 heifer calf, Wing Heart, is by our 1999 Canadian Grand Champion, Raven. (See our Bulls.)
 
Saint Clair





St. Clair is a Plains/Woods cross produced by Jack and Marie Evans from Clair, Saskatchewan. She won a Silver trophy at the 1999 Agribition in Regina, and provided us with a stout woods heifer calf by Woody in 2000. In 2001 she produced a lusty and brawling bull calf by Raven. Her current weight as a four year old is right at fourteen hundred pounds. A thick woods bison frame gives her an outstanding build.
 
Potosie



Potosie won a Silver trophy as a gorgeous black heifer calf in Denver in 1998. As a yearling in December of 99, she weighed 1012 pounds. At age four, she topped the scale at 1385 pounds. Produced by Sayersbrook Bison, she is one of our largest and most correct cows. Clostridium took her 2001 calf at seven days. She is currently enjoying Raven's company.
 
These are just a few of our outstanding animals. The rest of our herd includes: Nightshade, the mother of the high-selling Honorable Mention American Yearling Bull in Denver for 2001; Dakota, our herd matron - her son went to Rapid City in 2002; Little Wren, who brought home the Gold in Rapid City in 1998 as a heifer calf; and Tagless, a Custer cow whose two daughters have taken a Gold in Rapid City and a Fourth Place in Denver. Prairie Flower - a 1980 cow - gave us a daughter who took a Fifth in Denver. Rumbler, a Colvine Cow, didn't place in Denver as a heifer calf, but her first born, Quake, took a Bronze in the Yearling Bull competition in Rapid City. While our bulls are exceptional, we believe that our true strength lies in our cow herd.