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Phoebe Judson, a pioneer, recounted her efforts trading for salmon, highlighting the unexpected difficulties involved in acquiring fresh meat. Game, including rabbits, ducks, and even buffalo, supplemented their diets, but hunting was not without its dangers and challenges. Remarkably, not only did they seek meat, but they also gathered buffalo chips, the excrement of buffalo, to use as firewood—an ingenious yet somewhat unsavory solution to the lack of trees on the plains.