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During the early 1890s, Wyoming passed a state law prohibiting the killing of elk for their teeth, which led to the arrests of several Bannock hunters in 1895. The arrests and the death of one Bannock created wildly exaggerated rumors that the natives would revolt ; at one point, the Eastern press reported that the Bannocks had massacred a ...
Herrera v. Wyoming, No. 17-532, 587 U.S. 329 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Wyoming's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe's right to hunt on "unoccupied lands of the United States" under an 1868 treaty, and that the Bighorn National Forest did not automatically become "occupied" when the forest was created.
The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range war in Johnson County, Wyoming from 1889 to 1893. [3] The conflict began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area, many of whom were settlers who competed with them for livestock, land and water rights.
A disgusting but mesmerizing saga over an elk carcass continued on September 26, as two grizzlies tested each other’s determination to pick at the remains of a bull elk in Yellowstone National ...
The preliminary survey for the railroad produced the first map of the Great Basin and Southern Wyoming, according to author Stephen E. Ambrose. [14] The Red Desert's lack of water presented a problem for steam locomotives of the time. The Union Pacific Company found reliable water by drilling deep artesian wells in the desert.
Elk Mountain is located in a public landlocked parcel which became the center of federal lawsuit against four hunters from Missouri in 2022. In 2020 and 2021, the hunters used a step ladder and OnX, an application that maps public lands, to "corner-cross" their way over the 22,000-acre ranch (8,900 ha) owned by Fred Eshelman, an entrepreneur and resident of North Carolina.
Four college wrestlers say they are grateful to be alive -- and for each other -- after going toe-to-toe with a grizzly bear in Wyoming over the weekend. Brayden Lowry, Kendell Cummings, August ...
Olaus Johan Murie (March 1, 1889 – October 21, 1963), called the "father of modern elk management", [1] [2] was a naturalist, author, and wildlife biologist who did groundbreaking field research on a variety of large northern mammals.