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A Wyoming character named William “Missou” Hines, had a colorful career as a cowboy and once pulled a baby-switching prank that inspired Owen Wister to include it in his famous novel of Wyoming, “The Virginian.”
The 1975 movie, Bite the Bullet, with Gene Hackman, Candice Bergan and James Coburn, was about a 700-mile endurance horse race. The inspiration for the movie was a 600-mile horse race held from Evanston, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado, in 1908.
Western author, Jack Schaefer author of Shane and Monte
The Bighorn National Forest, created on February 22, 1897, is one of the oldest national forests in the United States. The Bighorn River’s headwaters lay inside the forest boundary, and the river was named by the Native Americans because of the bighorn sheep that were native to the area. Today, in B