The Buffalo Collection.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: [small biz] COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

Julie Littlefield's family started commercially herding buffalo on their 8,000-acre Scenic Mesa Ranch in the early 1990s, and then they got into the recreation business by opening the ranch to hunters and anglers. Overnight lodges followed about five years ago.

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"We needed furniture, and we had plenty of buffalo hides," Littlefield says. She put two and two together and started producing-high end couches, loveseats chairs and ottomans from the hide, with the help of "a ski bum form a North Carolina furniture family."

Soon she enlisted Paonia-based Kendall Custom Braiding...