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  The Lakota Tour - A Historical Travel Guide
It was a woman, and for a woman to be killed by an enemy was a disgrace to the warriors who allowed this to happened.
Crazy Horse took this news badly and could have killed Woman's Dress for bringing it, he slipped away through the willows to his lodge, not talking to anyone along the way, not even his mentor, Hump.
His mother and the old woman of the lodge took their moccasin-making to a relative, and Worm, his father, went too, crossing a few pieces of brush before the lodge door to show that none was at home there.
www.lakotatour.itgo.com   (3859 words)

  
 Phil Konstantin's 2003 Vacation: Crazy Woman Creek Fight, Fort Reno, Ayers Natural Bridge, Fort Fetterman, Dull Knife ...
The fight at Crazy Woman Creek took place southeast of Buffalo, Wyoming.
Crazy Woman Creek is to the left, looking east...picture 1 of 2
The last of the Crazy Woman Creek pictures.
americanindian.net /2003n.html   (760 words)

  
 Crazy Woman Crossing and Battlefield - Bozeman Trail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The crossing at Crazy Woman Creek represented a significant juncture in traveling the Bozeman Trail.
In 1876 the Crazy Woman Creek campsite again became the focus of military operations along the Bozeman route.
In this final drive against the Northern Plains tribes Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his party of scouts and soldiers departed the Crazy Woman Creek camp to attack and destroy the major Cheyenne encampment in the Bighorn Mountains.
wyoshpo.state.wy.us /crazy.htm   (295 words)

  
 Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Online - Cheyenne, Wyoming News and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
"Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West" is all about women and their experiences in different communities across the region.
The three editors of "Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the West" are Gaydell Collier of Sundance; Nancy Curtis, the publisher of High Plains Press; and Hasselstrom, from Cheyenne and South Dakota.
The official release date for "Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West" is May 18, but because some of the editors will be doing the book signing they are able to distribute copies early.
www.wyomingnews.com /news/more.asp?StoryID=102079   (1061 words)

  
 IX Ranch
The IX Ranch is located 12 miles (15 minutes) south of Buffalo, Wyoming (population 3,302), the county seat of Johnson County.
From Buffalo, the ranch is accessed by traveling south on Wyoming Highway 196 for 10 ± miles to the Crazy Woman County Road turnoff, 1± miles west to the Muddy Creek County Road, and _ mile to the private ranch road.
The improvements are nestled in a beautiful, private valley setting with the North Fork of Crazy Woman Creek flowing through the property.
www.pearsonrealestate.com /IX.htm   (1108 words)

  
 The Wind Books Website - Crazy Woman Creek
Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new West.
Some of the readings were definitely about the west, such as B.J. Buckley's wry poem describing the night a young woman walked into a laundromat in Missoula with three-days worth of clothes dirtied by ranch hands during branding season.
Groneberg's story also contained a universal truth, that is often neglected: she read of being a new wife, living in a rented apartment, learning from the older woman that was her landlady, receiving and giving gifts of food and home repairs, realizing that we all have a responsibility to each other.
www.windbooks.com /work1.htm   (1831 words)

  
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Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Incorporated is a unitary savings and loan holding company for Buffalo Federal Savings Bank (the Bank).
BRIEF: Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp is a bank holding company for the Buffalo Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered bank serving customers in the Wyoming area.
Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Inc.: Business description, financial summary, 3yr and interim financials, key statistics/ratios and historical ratio analysis.
today.reuters.com /stocks/Overview.aspx?symbol=CRZY&chart=7   (368 words)

  
 Fool.com: Crazy Woman Goes Shopping [Motley Fool Take] October 3, 2003
This is not a big outfit, but between the completely brilliant name (named for a local geographic feature) and its stand up year in and year out corporate performance, this is a company attracting more attention than its size would suggest.
It might be a wee bit of an overstatement to say that Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp's tender offer to repurchase up to 43% of its stock sent tremors through the financial world, but it sure as heck shook the company's shareholders out of their normal torpor.
Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp telegraphed that something was on tap when it began ratcheting up its cash accounts in the last six months -- fuel for the fire, so to speak.
www.fool.com /News/mft/2003/mft03100316.htm?source=EDNWFT   (458 words)

  
 Horse Haven Ranch
The headquarters are ¾ mile from the graveled county road and 2 ¼ miles from Highway 196.
Nestled in a protected valley on the banks of the North Fork of Crazy Women Creek with end-of-the-road privacy is a brand new rock/log home and a complete set of horse/ranch improvements, including a large indoor arena with attached horse stalls, corrals, and miscellaneous pens, sheds, etc.
The seller is making known to all potential purchasers that there may be variations between the deeded property lines and the location for the existing fence boundary lines on the subject property.
www.pearsonrealestate.com /horse.htm   (1027 words)

  
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 June 8, 2001, Crossing The Crazy Woman With A Harley-Davidson, Indian, BMW, Amazonas, Enfield, Hartford, SYM, Honda
Crazy Woman Creek originates in the southern tip of the Big Horn Mountain Range and my home is in the northern tip.
This year the high and muddy Crazy Woman told me we might not have the raging fires we did last summer when seemingly half of Montana was an orange flame.
I once lived with a woman who said to me, "If you go off on another one of your adventures, I won't be here when you get back," and she wasn't.
www.horizonsunlimited.com /gregfrazier/news/2001-06-08.shtml   (3296 words)

  
 Anthology Information for Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record straight by encouraging western women to reveal the reality of their lives in their own words.
Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek published by Houghton Mifflin, Mariner celebrates community­-connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new West, not the myth but the truth.
Yesterday on the MUNI, a woman sat next to me, frantically shuffling papers while she simultaneously talked on her cell phone.
www.burningofthemarriagehat.com /cwc.html   (1046 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003056893
Publisher description for Crazy Woman Creek : women rewrite the American West / edited by Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, and Linda M. Hasselstrom.
Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole.
A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after Columbine.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hm041/2003056893.html   (285 words)

  
 January 2001 Water Supply Outlook - Powder and Tongue River Basins (6)
Clear Creek drainage is 81 percent of normal SWE (78 percent of last year).
Crazy Woman Creek is 59 percent of average (70 percent of last year).
The estimated yield for Clear Creek near Buffalo is 29,000 acre-feet (74 percent of average).
www.wrds.uwyo.edu /wrds/nrcs/snowpack/2001Jan/powder.html   (575 words)

  
 Thesis Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Movement And Spawning Of Fishes In Crazy Woman Creek, A Tributary To The Powder River, Wyoming
Movement and spawning of fishes in the Powder River and Crazy Woman Creek were assessed in 1986 and 1987.
A total of 23 species were found with four being "creek-river migrants", four being "river residents", and nine residing in both Crazy Woman Creek and the Powder River.
uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu /fish_wild/abstracts/smith_j   (149 words)

  
 February 2002 Water Supply Outlook - Powder and Tongue River Basins (6)
Clear Creek drainage is 73 percent of normal SWE (126 percent of last year).
Crazy Woman Creek is 76 percent of average (168 percent of last year).
The estimated yield for Clear Creek near Buffalo is 21,000 acre-feet (54 percent of average).
www.wrds.uwyo.edu /wrds/nrcs/snowpack/powder.html   (561 words)

  
 80 acres w/Cabin - Western Land Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Crazy Woman Canyon's picturesque walls can be seen from the cabin and the Little North Fork of Crazy Woman Creek flows through the fish pond and back out again.
Meadowlark Elementary School (Kindergarten - 4th grade), Clear Creek Middle School (5th grade - 8th grade) and Buffalo High School (9th grade - 12th grade) are the three schools available.
Little North Fork of Crazy Woman Creek flows into the pond and back out.
www.westernland.net /Ranches/80Acres   (350 words)

  
 Celebrate Women's History, 2005 | The New York Public Library
In this engrossing historical mystery and romance, a bright young woman in 1400's Florence lives life on her own terms, despite the confinements of society.
The fascinating and peculiar life of the woman who abdicated Sweden's throne to avoid getting married.
The spellbinding story of a woman's survival in the Amazon in the 18th century.
www.nypl.org /branch/books/index2.cfm?ListID=224   (383 words)

  
 Quarter Circle 41 Ranch - Western Land Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Accessed via Highway 87 South from Buffalo to Crazy Woman Canyon Road.
Crazy Woman Creek and Burnett Creek flow through the property.
Crazy Woman Creek and Burnett Creek flow through a portion of the property.
www.westernland.net /Ranches/Quarter   (436 words)

  
 Crazy Woman Trading Post
I was "day-dreaming" when I drove by the highway sign "Crazy Woman Creek" and a huge smile washed over my face as I instantly recalled a funny incident that happened at that very location nearly 40 some years ago.
It was in the "sixties" when mom loaded all five of us kids (ranging from 2 -12 years old) into our Ford station wagon and traveled to Cheyenne to spend Thanksgiving with some close friends of the family.
There are several tragic legends or myths involving a white or Indian "crazy woman".
www.crazywomantradingpost.com /about.htm   (510 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West: Books: Linda M. Hasselstrom,Gaydell Collier,Nancy Curtis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This diverse and uplifting collection of prose and poetry is the third gathered by the editors, three literary women who also work ranches and whose aim is to honestly portray the lives of contemporary western women.
In Crazy Woman Creek, 153 women west of the Mississippi write of the ways they shape and sustain their communities.
A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after the tragedy at Columbine.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618249338?v=glance   (1373 words)

  
 Adventure Travel Media Source
In the early days of the West, pioneers discovered the cool, cottonwood shaded stream which is now known as Crazy Woman Creek.
They followed the creek to where it rushes forth from a deep canyon on the face of the Big Horns.
It lies in the midst of the country and traditions which made the Old West a land of glamour and romance, and it is surrounded by scenic beauty which attracts the modern traveler.
www.atmstravelnews.com /ClientView.asp?ClientId=320   (1907 words)

  
 Summary of Citation
Conglomerate occurs mostly in layers 6 to 12 ft interbedded with dark-greenish to light-yellow clays.
Mapped from Beaver Creek south to Kingsbury Ridge on east flank of Bighorn Mountains.
South of Crazy Woman Creek the lower part of the Wasatch is 150 ft thick and consists of red and dark-green soft claystone with lenticular calcareous medium- to coarse-grained sandstone lenses.
ngmdb.usgs.gov /Geolex/Refsmry/sumry_8855.html   (465 words)

  
 thebackpacker.com - trail talk - crazy woman creek
“Takin the Scouts on a campout this weekend to Crazy Woman Creek in the Bighorns.
We modified the plans to camp at the top of the canyon where the creek wanders.
The creek was awesome up where we hiked so we went back Sunday and caught some trout.
www.thebackpacker.com /trailtalk/thread/15874,-1.php   (516 words)

  
 Newsletter
A reviewer once took issue with my mention in dialogue of pregnancy because “women on the trail didn’t write such things in their diaries.” That a woman failed to mention her difficult pregnancy is not to say she didn’t have the experience.
In telling Marie Dorion’s story, an Iowa Indian woman who had been part of the Astor overland expedition of 1811-12, I found three different men’s versions claiming to record her actual words of what happened one winter in the Blue Mountains as she tried to keep her sons alive.
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West is a new collection of writings by western women.
www.womenwritingthewest.org /newsletter.html   (1899 words)

  
 U.S. Geological Survey Monitoring of Powder River Basin Stream-Water Quantity and Quality, WRIR 01-4279
Possible explanations for the lack of a strong relation include the influence of coal-mine discharges in the basin and the evaporative accumulation of surface salts in plains watersheds that can be flushed to the stream during rainfall events.
Salt Creek near Sussex, Wyo. (site 18) is a plains tributary of the Powder River that receives saline oil-production water from older, established oil fields and contributes to the salinity of the Powder River (Lindner-Lunsford and others, 1992).
SAR values measured in Clear Creek are generally less than 2 and correlate well with specific conductance.
pubs.usgs.gov /wri/wri014279/html/report.htm   (3541 words)

  
 The West in women's words   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The editors of "Crazy Woman Creek" live and write in this shifting West, and they've culled stories into similar anthologies twice already, so one would imagine that they know what is fresh and unique in this genre.
Hasselstrom, Collier and Curtis are devoted to the cause of women's Western literature, but at times this book seems to be formula-driven, marketed to women of a certain age, geography and education.
The essays and poems in "Crazy Woman Creek" have been filtered through a lens of Western myth that spotlights a particular strain of feminine culture.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/05/30/RVG2A6Q22O1.DTL   (906 words)

  
 USDA Forest Service, Bighorn National Forest - Recreation
Dead Swede, Owen Creek, Prune Creek, Sibley Lake, Tie Flume Campgrounds or dispersed camping is allowed outside of the riparian zone.
Little Bighorn River (including all tributaries), from the mouth of Dayton Gulch Creek upstream: All trout (except brook trout) must be returned to the water immediately.
Shell Creek, Cabin Creek and Ranger Creek Campgrounds or dispersed camping is allowed outside of the riparian zone.
www.fs.fed.us /r2/bighorn/recreation/fishing   (988 words)

  
 Nubank.com - Story Archive - Small Bank Stocks With Big Yields
In fact, banks dominate a screen of stocks with the fastest annualized dividend growth since 1998.
All of these, and plenty of others like them, have raised their dividends more than 40% over the past five years.
Besides the income, the stocks themselves have done well: Alliance of New England returned 37% in 2001; Main Street Banks (of Georgia), 35%; Georgia Financial, 31%; and Crazy Woman Creek, named for a stream in its home county in Wyoming, 24%.
www.nubank.com /stories/05-14-03_big-yields   (549 words)

  
 The Wind Books Website - Home
She is the publisher and primary editor of High Plains Press, a company specializing in books about Wyoming and the West, which she runs from the family ranch.
Linda was admitted to the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1989 as the Author of the Year, and her book Bison: Monarch of the Plains was named the best environmental and nature book of 1999 by the Independent Publishers Association.
When this website was first put together it was heavy on Crazy Woman Creek information, since both the book and this website were published about the same time.
www.windbooks.com   (1325 words)

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