Gros Ventre
by Lynn Sprowl
Title
Gros Ventre
Artist
Lynn Sprowl
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Photograph - Photography
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Gros Ventre by Lynn Sprowl
French meaning "big belly".
Have you watched the movie "The Mountain Men"? staring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith? They argued about which Native Americans were sneaking up on them. Crow or Blackfoot?
The Gros Ventre River is a 74.6-mile-long tributary of the Snake River in the state of Wyoming. During its short course, the river flows to the east, north, west, then southwest. It rises in the Gros Ventre Wilderness in western Wyoming, and joins the Snake River in the Jackson Hole valley. In 1925, the massive Gros Ventre landslide dammed the river and formed Lower Slide Lake. The natural dam collapsed in 1927, flooding the downstream town of Kelly,
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April 10th, 2021
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