From our files: Pryor Mountain Horse Range expanded in 1975

100 years ago, Sept. 19, 1925

The Cowley Progress

Any person who can catch a buffalo bull from the government’s herd in Yellowstone National Park may have him – if he pays the cost. This includes, besides express charges to its new home, an expense of about $80 for crating and transporting from the buffalo range to Gardiner, Montana, the shipping point. 

The government sold 68 of its surplus stock last year, and this year has about 100 more to spare. The National Park Service at Washington will receive applications, which must state for what purpose the bison are desired, age of the animals wanted and the facilities available for their care.

75 years ago, Sept. 21, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

Sen. J.C. O’Mahoney said the signing by President Truman of the Teton Park bill ends 18 years of work. The senator explained that under the bill signed, the former Grand Teton National Park and most of the Jackson Hole National Monument are combined into the “Grand Teton National Park in the State of Wyoming.” The act also transfers 6,376 acres of the former monument to the National Elk Refuge at Jackson and 2,806 acres to the Teton National Forest.

Senator O’Mahoney explained the government will repay Teton County the full amount of taxes levied on 33,000 acres of Rockefeller land conveyed to the government last December. … This repayment will be for 10 years following the acquisition of the land, and then at a rate decreasing five percent a year for the succeeding 20 years. “These payments will be made from fees collected from visitors to the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks,” he said.

50 years ago, Sept. 18, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

The Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range is being expanded under new designations proposed by the Bureau of Land Management and approved by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Jack Horton. The Range is a 32,000-acre federal reservation established on the Montana-Wyoming border by the Secretary of the Interior in 1968 to protect a herd of wild horses. 

The new additions include the 2,360-acre Crooked Creek area in Wyoming adjacent to the southern boundary of the Range and the 560-acre Mystic area along the top of the 8,822-foot East Pryor Mountain on the northern edge of the Range. All land involved in the new designations are National Resource Lands already under the administration of BLM. 

25 years ago, Sept. 21, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

The U.S. Sevens National Rugby Team, the Eagles, competed in two development tournaments in Europe earlier this month taking first in one and second in the other. The first place finish was the first for any U.S. rugby team since the 1924 Olympics, according to University of Wyoming Coach Rich Cortez.

Cortez followed the U.S. team because UW player Brad Gifford, son of Dick Gifford of Lovell, was selected to the U.S. Sevens squad. Gifford is the first UW player to be selected to the national rugby team while still on the UW squad.

10 years ago, Sept. 17, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

For math teacher and football coach Jennifer Gardner her new job at Lovell High School is a perfect match of her talents and interests. Gardner is teaching mathematics, a subject near and dear to her heart, and may in fact be the only female football coach in the state.