Most of the Wind River Canyon, with the Owl Creek Mountains on the west and Bridger Mountains on the east is in Hot Springs County, while the Bighorn Mountains ring the east portion on the county and the Absaroka Range is to the west.

* Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area ( part )

Little Bighorn Battlefield and the Big Horn Canyon National Recreation Area are regulated by the National Park Service.

Within 100 miles are Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Red Lodge Mountain Resort and the Beartooth Highway which links Red Lodge to Yellowstone National Park.

Thermopolis is located near the northern end of the Wind River Canyon and Wedding of the Waters, where the north-flowing Wind River becomes the Bighorn River.

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

Bighorn Lake extends through Wyoming and Montana, of which are held within spectacular Bighorn Canyon.

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Desert Bighorn Sheep at Palm Canyon Oasis. The habitats of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park are primarily within the Colorado Desert ecosystem of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion.

The Wind River officially becomes the Bighorn River at the Wedding of the Waters, on the north side of the Wind River Canyon near the town of Thermopolis.

The reservoir and the surrounding gorge are part of the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area consists of approximately within the Bighorn Mountains.

The second roadless area is located mainly on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana ; its 144, 000 acres also includes 34, 000 acres of Devil's Canyon on the Bighorn N. F.

* Paleontological resources at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

* Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

Bighorn sheep at Palm Canyon in Anza-Borrego State Park

Bighorn sheep in Silver Canyon near the town of Bishop, California

In the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area book, storyteller Old Coyote describes a legend related to the bighorn sheep.

The Wind River officially becomes the Bighorn River at the Wedding of the Waters, on the north side of the Wind River Canyon.

Bighorn Sheep at Palm Canyon in Anza-Borrego State Park.

This scenic area is known as Bighorn Sheep Canyon, and is west of the well-known Royal Gorge.

The Medicine Wheel in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming, USA

* Bighorn National Forest ( part )

* Bighorn National Forest ( part )

* Custer National Cemetery is within Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the site of Custer's death.

Burnham had only recently returned from Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge which he had dedicated with the Boy Scouts in Arizona after a long campaign to save the Desert Bighorn Sheep.

Crow Agency is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States and is near the actual location for the Little Bighorn National Monument and re-enactment known as Custer's Last Stand.

Attractions located near the Laurel area include Yellowstone National Park, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, and Pompey's Pillar National Monument ( where in 1806, William Clark carved his name ).

The Dubois Museum preserves and interprets the natural and social history of the Upper Wind River Valley as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center focuses on public education about the biology and habitat of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep with specific focus on the currently largest herd of Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep in the coterminous United States that winter in the Whisky Basin of Whisky Mountain adjacent to the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest.

Bighorn National Recreation Area

Bighorn Lake is a reservoir in the United States located in Southern Montana and Northern Wyoming in the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.

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Location map for Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.

Bighorn sheep, wiped out in this region in the early 20th century, were reintroduced in the Foree Area of the Sheep Rock Unit in 2010.

The mountain dwelling Shoshone were known as " Sheep-eaters " or " Tukudika " as they referred to themselves, since a staple of their diet was the Bighorn Sheep.

He was one of the participants in the PBS American Experience documentary, Last Stand at Little Bighorn.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

While the Terry / Gibbon column was marching toward the mouth of the Little Bighorn, on the evening of June 24, Custer's scouts arrived at an overlook known as the Crow's Nest, east of the Little Bighorn River.

Historians have estimated the population of the Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho encampment along the Little Bighorn River was approximately 10, 000, making it one of the largest gatherings of Native Americans in North America in pre-reservation times.

On November 6, 1896 it was renamed Custer County after General George Armstrong Custer, who had massacred the Southern Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Washita 20 miles west in Roger Mills County, and was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

It was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Established in 1881, it was named for the General Custer Mine, where gold was discovered five years earlier ( shortly after Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in eastern Montana ).

It was this united encampment of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians that the 7th met at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

On June 25, some of Custer's Crow Indian scouts identified what they claimed was a large Indian encampment along the Little Bighorn River.

* George Armstrong Custer — one of his final encampments before Battle of the Little Bighorn was south of Colstrip

Daniel Kanipe, one of only two survivors of General Custer's 7th Cavalry that was massacred at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Crook was fishing in the Big Horn Mountains on Tepee Creek while Gen. George Custer fell to the Lakota and Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn some to the north.

Moore was known as " Yellow Hair " to his troops at the battle at Ia Drang, for his blond hair, and as a tongue-in-cheek homage referencing George Armstrong Custer, commander of the same unit ( 7th Cavalry ) at the Battle of the Little Bighorn just under a century before.

* Myles Keogh-American Civil War military officer and later Captain of Company I, U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment-Fought in Indian Wars and was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

A two-day event was held at Bighorn Golf Club at Palm Desert, CA featuring Nicklaus, who is donating his design services for the " Nicklaus Nine ".

He was instrumental in extending the " commercial outreach of St. Louis " to the Yellowstone and Bighorn rivers and to tribes previously more under British influence.

One of its famous battles was the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which combined Sioux and Cheyenne forces defeated the 7th Cavalry, led by General George Armstrong Custer.

In 1877, he was assigned to meet with Sitting Bull, who, having defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, had moved with his people into Canada to escape American vengeance.