This bighorn sheep in the lobby of the Stagecoach Inn stares back at you with a serious look. Hey trophy hunters what’s up with you? The taxidermist did a good job.
Bighorns have been living in Yellowstone Park for a long time. They were hunted by the Shoshone Tukadica tribe who ate the meat and used the hide for clothing.
[Sheepeater Cliff is between Norris and Mamoth]
The Tukadica were called ‘Sheep Eaters’ by the white men that were acquainted with them. No one seems to have recorded what the Tukadica called the white men.
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