Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"… my mother wasn’t working, she enjoyed riding the buffalos she tended. She liked to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 2 of 3

"My mother had to herd five water buffalos, and my father worked in rice and peanut fields. They both got little pay on some days, no pay on others."

St. Croix Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"Buffalo/bison processing is 40 cents per pound dressed, $100 to kill. Deer processing is $60 to $130 to kill depending on size."