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Big Horn Mountains

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  • It might be they'd go a safe distance and then set to roasting me over a slow fire, but I doubted it; they were riding steady, so it looked like a longish trek across the northern Powder country towards the Big Horn Mountains; that was where the Sioux were mostly hanging their hats these days.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Reno had been off on a scout, and had found an abandoned camp ground where there had been several hundred tipis, as well as a heavy trail heading west towards the Big Horn Mountains.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Drive over the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, up past outcroppings of Devonian and Ordovician rock, farther back in time the higher you go, until you reach the top, where, amid granite outcroppings 2 billion years old, a moose is seining his breakfast from a swampy meadow flecked with wildflowers.

    The Custer Syndrome 2008

  • The grass in the valley was fired, and behind the screen of smoke the Sioux and Cheyennes slowly moved away toward the Big Horn Mountains.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • They marched through the Big Horn Mountains to the camp of Crazy Horse, where they found food and shelter.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • I have two mountains in that country, the Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountains.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • After the great victory on the Little Horn the Sioux and Cheyennes went to the Big Horn Mountains to cut lodge poles.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Between the Big Horn Mountains and Powder River in Wyoming, the homesteaders soon became a political power, controlling Johnson County, with their headquarters in the county seat of Buffalo.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • It might be they'd go a safe distance and then set to roasting me over a slow fire, but I doubted it; they were riding steady, so it looked like a longish trek across the northern Powder country towards the Big Horn Mountains; that was where the Sioux were mostly hanging their hats these days.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Reno had been off on a scout, and had found an abandoned camp ground where there had been several hundred tipis, as well as a heavy trail heading west towards the Big Horn Mountains.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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