The jubilant sounds of music and fireworks on the “CentennialFourth” had barely faded away when newspaper editors and telegraph operators began spreading alarming reports of a major defeat suffered by the U.S. Army in the Montana Territory... .
A study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests seemingly asymptomatic aoudads are spreading pneumonia-causing respiratory pathogens to the state’s native bighorn sheep.
An invasive species found across West Texas may pose a greater threat to native bighorn sheep than previously understood ...Respiratory disease remains one of the greatest challenges facing bighorn sheep conservation across North America.
The letters, along with other documents that include 12 signed handwritten messages from Elizabeth Custer, are among artifacts contained in the BillingsPublic Library’s archives ... .
"Don't forget to keep a weather eye open for that prince of fakers, Alfred Chapman, the long-haired liar who claims he was Custer's chief guide, and witnessed the massacre thru a spyglass from a hill a mile away." ....
As part of a two-day effort to relocate 39 sheep from Southern Nevada to the Tobin Range in NorthernNevada, crews captured the animals, assessed their health and prepared them for transport ....
Drive the stretch of paved road that leads from LittleBighornBattlefield's visitor center and the hills look the same as when Wooden Leg and Half Yellow Face rode through it, minus the red and white granite gravestones ... .
In 1876, a solider wrote that Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapaho “proved then and there that they were the greatest cavalry on earth.” On Thursday, they proved it again ... .