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The Gros Ventre Range (/ ˌ ɡ r oʊ ˈ v ɑː n t / groh-VAHNT) is part of the Central Rocky Mountains and is located west of the Continental Divide in U.S. state of Wyoming. The name "Gros Ventre" is French for "big belly." The highest summit in the range is Doubletop Peak at 11,720 feet (3,570 m). [1]
Sheep Mountain (11,244 feet (3,427 m)) is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] Sheep Mountain forms a 5-mile (8 km) long ridge in the Gros Ventre Range and is easily seen from Jackson Hole . The town of Jackson is 13 miles (21 km) southwest of the peak.
The National Bighorn Sheep Center (formerly known as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretative Center) is a 2,775-square-foot (257.8 m 2) Interpretive Center [1] dedicated to 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 ...
Around 1908, the sheep and cattlemen's associations of Wyoming agreed to the establishment of a deadline in Big Horn County. Tensleep Creek made up at least part of the border; west of the creek was cattle country while the area to the east was for the sheepmen.
The sheep wars, [1] [2] or the sheep and cattle wars, [3] [4] were a series of armed conflicts in the Western United States fought between sheepmen and cattlemen over grazing rights. Sheep wars occurred in many western states, though they were most common in Texas , Arizona , and the border region of Wyoming and Colorado .
According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are at least 109 named mountain ranges and sub-ranges in Wyoming. Wyoming / w aɪ ˈ oʊ m ɪ ŋ / ⓘ is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the 2nd least densely populated of the 50 United States.
Following the railroad, sheep ranching became more popular, reaching its peak in 1918, when Cokeville was informally called the "Sheep Capital of the World". On May 16, 1986, former town marshal David Young and his wife Doris Young took 167 children and adults hostage during the Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis. The captives escaped ...
Gannett Peak is the highest summit of the Wind River Range, the U.S. State of Wyoming, and the Central Rocky Mountains. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of Wyoming. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: