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Discreet Palate
Text by Colter Pedersen | Photography by Steve Wolff
T
he road north to Dupuyer cleaves the
surrounding territory in two. With
soaring summits to one side and endless
plains to the other, you watch the stark
landscape climb from tumbleweeds to
towering peaks.
Along the way, tiny towns rise out of the prairie
almost as abruptly. Yet somehow the smaller the town, the
bigger the sense of community.
at innate call of community brought Vicki
Beck back to her hometown to open up Buffalo Joe's. "I
always had in the back of my mind to do something here,"
begins Vicki. Following a fire that burned down the lone
restaurant in town, she found her opportunity. "My whole
enjoyment out of this is seeing the people have a place to
go, to come and have a beer, to have a dinner and be able
to visit," Vicki says.
ough she didn't have any real restaurant experi-
ence, she had plenty of history with the space. Her parents
bought the original building in 1948, running it as Billips
WHERE THE IDEA OF THE OLD WEST LIVES ON
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