The peaks of the Wind River Range rise and fall like the rhythm of a heartbeat against the vast Wyoming sky. Below, elk and bison roam the sagebrush-covered foothills. This landscape has served as a sacred backdrop for native Plains tribes for centuries—or, some say, since the dawn of humanity. Thousands of years before the Oregon Trail, before shoot-outs and saloons, and before Butch Cassidy and his wild bunch scrambled to their hideout in the hills, a resilient, close-knit people developed masterful hunting skills and cultivated a warrior spirit in…
