Word: bighorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building. He is close with his money but has unwound enough in the past few years to buy a Cadillac, several color TV sets and motorcycles for each of his three oldest sons. This year he even treated himself to a two-week trip hunting elk, bear and bighorn sheep in the Canadian Yukon. Pat sounds apologetic about his worldly goods and pleasures: 'Since the kids have gotten older we've bought a lot of things we really didn't need ?but that is one of the reasons we've been working hard...
What if General George Armstrong Custer had defeated the Sioux at the Little Bighorn? He would have had to make another last stand-against the Northwest Telegraph Co. Just two months before the historic battle, Ma Morse was dunning Custer for an overdue bill that amounted to more than a hundred dollars. "His case is peculiarly aggravating from the fact that he is utterly lawless in all of his transactions with us," complained C.H. Haskins, general superintendent of the company, in a furious letter to General A.H. Terry in St. Paul, Minn. "We hoped that he would do better...
Except for the Battle of Little Bighorn, you and similar publications attribute all murder and violence in this country to the Mafia. Once again you owe Italian Americans an apology...
...Zlatibor, where he joined in the kolo, a lively folk dance, made some speeches and visited local officials. Next morning he was host at an annual hunt for foreign diplomats at the former royal lodge of Karadjordjevo. He spurned the pursuit of pheasant for bigger game and bagged three bighorn sheep. He returned from the hunt for dinner and entertainment at a cabaret that lasted until the early hours. Two days later he flew to Brioni Island, where he entertained Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk at a sumptuous dinner...
...Valley, about 40 miles southwest of Butte. Not far from its campsites, moose, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and goats graze. Fishtrap is a "blue-ribbon" fishing area-the state's highest designation-whose streams teem with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Relatively few visitors have discovered the Bighorn River south of Billings, Mont., which encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, the broad Snake River, bounded by stands of aspen and lodgepole pine, affords both white-water rapids boating and lazy...