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A National Register study of the Whoop-Up Trail included "Diamond R. Brown's account of being caught in a tremendous snowstorm in 1871 at Rocky Springs": the cold was almost unendurable, whiskey froze, coal oil became thick slush, our horses chewed the wagon boxes and consumed a dozen brooms. Many of the animals froze to death. [2]
Japanese pack horse (ni-uma or konida-uma) carrying two girls as passengers, circa 1900–1929. Packhorses are used worldwide to convey many products. In feudal Japan riding in a saddle was reserved for the samurai class until the end of the samurai era (1868); lower classes would ride on a pack saddle (ni-gura or konida-gura) or bareback. [13]
The Big Snowy Mountains (Gros Ventre: níichʔibííkʔa, lit. 'it is never summer' [ 1 ] ) are a small mountain range south of Lewistown in Fergus County, Montana . Considerably east of and isolated from the main crest of the Northern Rockies , they are one of the few points of significant elevation in the immediate area and are considered one ...
Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border.The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km 2) and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), more than 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals.
Equitrekking is the Emmy award-winning equestrian themed travel television show on public television. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina native Darley Newman, the show's host, writer and producer, and a 2001 graduate of George Washington University, [1] takes viewers to locations around the world for horseback riding and other adventure activities with local people. [2]
The Little Snowy Mountains [1] are a small mountain range in central Montana about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Lewistown. The range lies mostly in Fergus County, but the southern part of the range extends into Golden Valley and Musselshell counties. [2] [3] The range is a lower continuation of the Big Snowy Mountains which lie immediately to ...
The first major snowstorm of the season dropped up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow in the Helena, Montana, area by Wednesday, sending an army of snowplows and sand trucks out onto the roads.
The Big Snowy Group is a stratigraphical unit of Chesterian age in the Williston Basin. It takes the name from Big Snowy Mountains in Montana , and was first described on the north slopes of the mountain by H.W. Smith in 1935.