Ransom County Notes: Before settlement occurred, countless numbers of migrating wildlife passed through the land now comprising the county. A remarkable example occurring in the early 1860s tells of a military troop commanded by a Colonel Creel who found themselves trapped atop a hill five miles south of present-day Lisbon. An immense herd of buffalo headed toward the hill, split to pass by on either side of them, and kept the men surrounded for several hours. The colonel looked in the distance with his spotting glass and saw the horizon filled with animals.
