I can relate

Dry itchy winter skin has arrived, maybe that's why this blurb about wyoming tickeled me so much....

Cheyenne had a wild and wooly beginning. The telegraph line was one of the first aspects of civilization to arrive, but the local buffalo herds thought the line had been built primarily to provide them with scratching posts. They rubbed telegraph poles out of the ground faster than crews could put them in. Eventually the poles were spiked to make them less attractive, but the plan backfired -- within a few hours, according to Wyoming folklore, every telegraph pole between Cheyenne and Omaha had thirty buffalo standing in line waiting for their turn to scratch.