Excerpt from Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 14: January 1942 Very little attention has been given to the sheep losses in the winter of 1886-87. Wyoming Territory was a cattleman's commonwealth and there were relatively few sheep, but not so few that they can be ignored. The press had little enough to say about sheep. A report from Rawlins, March told that many cattle were dying but that sheep were suffering little. 61 On the other hand, a special dispatch to the Denver Republican from Butte, Montana, February 21, told of heavy losses among sheep as well as cattle. The Denver Republican Special correspondent who went to investigate Montana stories reported that sheep suffered even worse than cattle.63 Charlie Worland, the earliest sheepman in the Big Horn Basin, lost most of his flock.64 There were few sheep in Crook county where the heaviest cattle losses occurred. The assessors listed sheep for the Territory in 1887 in comparison with only for the year before.65 Without figures for the number of sheep trailed in in 1887 a generalization about winter losses is impossible. There is no evidence suggesting that horses suffered much in 1886-87. Horses could paw through the snow for feed and could move from water to fresh range and back with relative ease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.