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==Background==

==Background==

Jones was born near Pekin in Tazewell County, [[Illinois]], to Noah Nicholas Jones and the former Jane Munden. His father was a farmer and election judge who once hired [[Abraham Lincoln]] as an [[attorney]]. The second oldest of twelve children, Jones was reared on a farm at Money Creek Township in McLean County, in central Illinois near Bloomington.  Jones became involved at an early age with the capture of wild animals and kept several as pets. For two years, he attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, but withdrew after being stricken with [[typhoid fever]]. In 1866, at the age of 22, Jones came to  Troy in Doniphan County in the northeastern corner of Kansas, to operate nursery of fruit trees.<ref name=hnetmsu>{{cite web|url=http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-shgape&month=0008&week=c&msg=4ZaC2nPza053qdx7jtInAg&user=&pw=|title=Buffalo Jones|publisher=h-net.msu.edu|accessdate=September 4, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref> In 1869, he wed the former Martha Walton, a descendant of [[England|English]] author and naturalist Izaak Walton (c. 1593-1683). The couple had six childrenb, only two of whom lived to an advanced age.<ref name=findagrave/>

Jones was born near Pekin in Tazewell County, [[Illinois]], to Noah Nicholas Jones and the former Jane Munden. His father was a farmer and election judge who once hired [[Abraham Lincoln]] as an [[attorney]]. The second oldest of twelve children, Jones was reared on a farm at Money Creek Township in McLean County, in central Illinois near Bloomington.  Jones became involved at an early age with the capture of wild animals and kept several as pets. For two years, he attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, but withdrew after being stricken with [[typhoid fever]]. In 1866, at the age of 22, Jones came to  Troy in Doniphan County in the northeastern corner of Kansas, to operate nursery of fruit trees.<ref name=hnetmsu>{{cite web|url=http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-shgape&month=0008&week=c&msg=4ZaC2nPza053qdx7jtInAg&user=&pw=|title=Buffalo Jones|publisher=h-net.msu.edu|accessdate=September 4, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref> In 1869, he wed the former Martha Walton, a descendant of [[England|English]] author and naturalist Izaak Walton (c. 1593–1683). The couple had six childrenb, only two of whom lived to an advanced age.<ref name=findagrave/>

Soon, Jones left the tree nursery and headed west to Osborne County in north central Kansas, where he built a sod house and began earning his livelihood by hunting bison and capturing wild [[horse]]s. These lengthy hunting trips took Jones into West Texas, where he met the famed lawman Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1908), who in 1881 killed the desperado, [[Billy the Kid]]) in Fort Sumner in, [[New Mexico]] Territory. Some accounts place Jones on March 18, 1877, at the Battle of Yellow House Canyon (also called the Battle of Thompson's Canyon) near the future [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]. His success at hunting earned him the sobriquet "Buffalo" Jones. In addition to hunting bison, he tamed buffalo calves and sold them at county fairs.<ref name=hnetmsu/>

Soon, Jones left the tree nursery and headed west to Osborne County in north central Kansas, where he built a sod house and began earning his livelihood by hunting bison and capturing wild [[horse]]s. These lengthy hunting trips took Jones into West Texas, where he met the famed lawman Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1908), who in 1881 killed the desperado, [[Billy the Kid]]) in Fort Sumner in, [[New Mexico]] Territory. Some accounts place Jones on March 18, 1877, at the Battle of Yellow House Canyon (also called the Battle of Thompson's Canyon) near the future [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]]. His success at hunting earned him the sobriquet "Buffalo" Jones. In addition to hunting bison, he tamed buffalo calves and sold them at county fairs.<ref name=hnetmsu/>