Winter is bison auction season, and this one on the Cannonball Ranch in North Dakota is one of the biggest in the country.
The auctioneer, Greg Ryken, has a clean white cowboy hat and jeans. He calls out: “All right do we have $2,000 for ‘em…"
The bidders are wearing muck boots and dirty Carhartt jackets. They bid by catching the eye of the auctioneer’s assistants, who run between them yelling out whenever bids are made.
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