Why did pioneer children collect buffalo chips?

To use as fuel for fires.

Explanation:

In the plains of the mid-west, trees were scarce, let-alone proper tinder. However, buffalo were abundant in the mid-west and their dung could be burned. Thus, the chips were collected as fire fuel.

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