A Tibetan girl guarding a herd of goats slings a small rock.

The Texas longhorn stock slowly dwindled, until in 1927 the breed was saved from near extinction by enthusiasts from the United States Forest Service, who collected a small herd of stock to breed on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

In this case the animals were normally milked by hand and the herd size was quite small, so that all of the animals could be milked in less than an hour — about 10 per milker.

Property and use rights were usually respected among big and small ranches based on who was first to settle the land ( the doctrine is known as Prior Appropriation ) and the size of the herd.

The town is above the treeline, and there is a small herd of 120 bison ( first introduced in the 1930s ) which provides some meat for the island's inhabitants.

In 1859, with his wife and two small daughters, and driving a small herd of cattle, walked more than from the coast near Sacramento, to a homestead along the Tule River, southwest of Lindsay.

The Estate also has a small pig herd, and will be investing in chickens and an apiary during the year 2010-2011.

East Iceland has a small herd of about 2, 500 – 3, 000 animals.

In 1800 there were three Red Deer on the island, later replaced by goats and then a small herd of black cattle.

Despite being relatively small in area, the chase provides a remarkable range of landscape and wildlife, including a herd of around 800 fallow deer and a number of rare and endangered birds, not least migrant Nightjars.

The price may range from a small sum of money or a single piece of livestock to what amounts to a herd of livestock, depending on local traditions and the expectations and agreements of the families involved.

In addition, voters could voluntarily choose to make certain heavily farmed areas a " herd district ," where livestock needed to be fenced in, a process that also became popular in areas where development of hobby farms created conflicts between large and small landowners.

A driver may round a bend to find a small herd standing in the road.

Sachs pointed to strict monetary and contractory fiscal policies implemented by the governments on the advice of the IMF in the wake of the crisis, while Frederic Mishkin points to the role of asymmetric information in the financial markets that led to a " herd mentality " among investors that magnified a small risk in the real economy.

Transhumance in the Pyrenees involves relocation of livestock ( cows, sheep, horses ) to high mountains for summer months, because farms in the lowland are too small to support a larger herd all year round.

Sailfish raise them if they want to herd a school of small fish, and also after periods of high activity, presumably to cool down.

Not long after the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney in 1788, a small herd of six cattle escaped and weren't seen again by the British settlers for seven years.

In these small valleys, people cultivate narrow fluvial plains along creeks or mountain terraces, hunt animals or collect mushrooms and herbs ( for food or medicine ) in the neighboring woods, and herd yaks and horses on the mountain-top pastures.

A small herd of fifteen mostly white fallow deer resides at the Belle Isle Nature Zoo on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan.

At some point in their development, the Andalites began a transition away from being herd animals, and formed small groups, similar to families.

After the ducks settled on the pond, a small, trained dog would herd the birds into the tunnel.

Bison have been kept in Golden Gate Park since 1891, when a small herd was purchased by the park commission.

Kiwanis, American Legion and other groups donate small sums and the mothers do what they can to bring in dollars for its support.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

The present crop of small cars is enriching American humor.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

A matai can represent a small family group or a great extended family that reaches across islands, and to both American Samoa and independent Samoa.

By 1865, following the American Civil War, stocks in small industrial companies, such as iron and steel, textiles and chemicals were first sold by curbstone brokers.

In 1944, the American armed forces constructed a small and short-lived air base on the island of Santa Maria.

Often the " small ball " model is associated with the National League, while power hitting is seen as more associated with the American League.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

There are pronounced differences in North American wolves of different localities ; wolves from Texas and New Mexico are comparatively slim animals with small teeth.

Often, in American legal and business documents that speak of governing bodies ( e. g., a board that governs small businesses in China ) these bodies are described as " creatures of statute " to inform readers of their origins and format although the national governments that created them may not term them as creatures of statute.

That is except for a small number built in the 1860s, and the last American clipper ship from the East Boston shipyard of Donald McKay in 1869, the Glory of the Seas.

The majority of the North American Bereans re-joined the main body of Christadelphians in 1952 ; though a small number continue as a separate community to the present day.

American service personnel in their teens or early twenties during the Second World War would be in prime car-buying age by 1960, if only to find an economical small second car for their growing family needs.

Some South American plants formerly thought of as Daturas are now treated as belonging to the distinct genus Brugmansia ( Brugmansia differs from Datura in that it is woody, making shrubs or small trees, and in that it has pendulous flowers, rather than erect ones ).

Lynne, with the 7-piece line-up that supported Time ( with the exception of bassist Groucutt being replaced by Martin Smith ), played a small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, then at Disneyland that summer.

From 1909 a small number of American films, and even one or two European ones, came to include a few dialogue titles, or " spoken titles " as they were called at the time.

As a consequence, French movies have to be amortized on a relatively small market and thus generally have budgets far lower than their American counterparts, ruling out expensive settings and special effects.

Without his approval, he became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate of Victoria Woodhull on the impracticable and small Equal Rights Party ticket.

The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.

A British company, Safir Engineering, who made continuation GT40s in the 1980s owned the GT40 trademark at that time, and when they completed production, they sold the excess parts, tooling, design, and trademark to a small American company called Safir GT40 Spares based in Ohio.

Goeldi's marmoset or Goeldi's monkey ( Callimico goeldii ) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon Basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.