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Big Bear (Mistahi-maskwa, ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃᒪᐢᑿ in syllabics) was born in 1824 in Jackfish Lake, near the future site of Battleford.His father, Muckitoo (otherwise known as Black Powder), was a minor chief of a tribe of 80 Plains Cree-Saulteaux people who were deemed to be "true nomadic hunters".
Hot Springs State Park: Hot Springs: 1,108.67 448.66: 1897: On the Big Horn River in Thermopolis: Keyhole State Park: Crook: 15,890 6,430: 1952: Surrounds the Keyhole Reservoir Seminoe State Park: Carbon: 20,848 8,437: 1965: On the Seminoe Reservoir: Sinks Canyon State Park: Fremont: 600 240: 1971: Underground river on the Middle Fork of the ...
Prominent leaders of this uprising were Chief Poundmaker and Chief Big Bear. Poundmaker and his band had a reserve near present-day Cut Knife about 50 km (31 miles) west of Fort Battleford. Big Bear and his band had settled near Frog Lake about 55 km (34 miles) northwest of Fort Pitt but had not yet selected a reserve site. [1]
Sinks Canyon State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area located in the Wind River Mountains, six miles (9.7 km) southwest of Lander, Wyoming, on Wyoming Highway 131. The state park is named for a portion of the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River where it flows into an underground limestone cavern, named "the Sinks," and ...
In the melee, there was a great deal of indiscriminate firing and women and children were killed as well as warriors. The village, led by Black Bear and Medicine Man, had about 500 inhabitants. Many of the men were absent for a raid on the Crow along the Big Horn River, leaving mostly old men, women, and children in the village. After the ...
Chief Big Bear and his band had settled near Frog Lake in late 1884. [2] He had signed Treaty 6 in 1882 [3] and been pushed to move his band near Fort Pitt, located about 55 km (34 mi) from Frog Lake, but had not yet selected a reserve site. [4]
A grizzly bear wandered into an area of Wyoming where the predators ... after it preyed on a cow on a private cattle ranch at the base of the Bighorn Mountains south of the town of Ten Sleep, the ...
The TA Ranch was the site of the principal events of the Johnson County Range War in 1892. The TA was established in 1882 as one of the first ranches in Johnson County, Wyoming . The TA is the only intact site associated with the range war, with trenches used by both sides still visible and scars on the nearby buildings.