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- Title: Bighorn Mountains Medicine Wheel
- Description: The Medicine Wheel rests within the Crow homeland, but oral history from several indigenous nations sets the Big Horn Medicine Wheel as already existing, having been built by "ancient ancestors" or "people without iron" likely before 1700 AD. Although the Wheel was built high above the Bighorn Basin, and the climb up from the basin takes effort, a wide and deep cut ancient trail takes the traveler directly to the Wheel. Stephen C. Simms of the Chicago Field Museum, upon examining the Wheel in 1903, surmised that the travois trail must have been well-traveled for long periods in the past to acquire its deeply cut edges. The stone wheel is located at an altitude of 9462 ft, near the summit of Medicine Mountain. The structure consists of a circular rim, 80 ft in diameter, 28 spokes extending from the rim to the center, and a series of seven stone cairns.
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- Added: Feb 18, 2018
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