Over the course of her life, my mother and family collected many articles and newspaper clipping of the events that shaped her world. She also wrote down what other people told her and about her own experiences. Throw in a little history and you have this book. I've tried to cover a few hundred years in a couple hundred pages. To accomplish this, I take you on a journey around the Bighorn Basin including many other points of interest with a clear view of the Pryor Mountains. I can only hope the results of my mother's effort and my own hard work can show in some small way to the rest of the world what an awesome place the Bighorn Basin country truly is. It is my fervent hope this book will instill within you a fraction of the love of this wild country as I have. Perhaps you will make the effort to visit and when the time comes, protect it for all future generations. I have come to realize how lucky and proud I am to have been born in the town of Lovell, in the heart of Bighorn County, Wyoming, in these United States of America.