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• Billionaire oilman Harold Hamm says, however, the Minnelusa is no Bakken and may be overhyped.
• "But that certainly does not rule out everything," said Hamm, the chairman and chief executive officer of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc. His company is one the oldest and biggest operators in North Dakota, drilling there for more than two decades. It was among the first to tap a Bakken well in 2004 using horizontal drilling technology.
• Hamm is no stranger to South Dakota -- his company has been there since 1996 and, along with Denver-based Luff Exploration Co., accounts for the bulk of the state's oil.
• He said production in South Dakota has remained steady over the past 16 years.
• "We've done well with it," Hamm said. "We're certainly not giving up on South Dakota. We're going to drill wells and keep looking."
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Peter Fay, a fourth-generation Goshen farmer.
• Native Americans in the area have come with gifts of tobacco and colored flags for Fay and the bull calf since it was born there a month ago, and Fay is planning to offer his hay field as a campsite for the expected crowds.
• "They say it's going to bring good things to all people in the world. How can you beat that? That's the way I look at it," Fay said.
• Connecticut farms host only about 100 bison, a tiny fraction of the populations in Western states, such as South Dakota, the home of Sioux tribes that attach the greatest spiritual meaning to white bison. As some push for greater recognition of the bison's significance to both the United States and Native Americans, advocates say the event on the far-flung East Coast is well-placed to boost exposure for the cause.
• Fay, whose family traditionally stuck to dairy farming, took on bison four years ago as a hobby, enamored by the animals' toughness. He built his herd to 40 before recently selling half of them.

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