TEN SLEEP, WYOMING — The Native Americans had an interesting way of counting distance. It was based on how many overnights it required to get to a place. Ten Sleep, a tiny hamlet of 260, was 10 “sleeps” from Yellowstone, Laramie and from the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana.
Harris Blackwood: Western journal
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