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Library hosts "Yellowstone Horse Ranger" program

Crook County Library will host the program “Yellowstone Horse Ranger” by Bob Richard on Friday, May 17 at 7 p.m. in the library meeting room in Sundance. The program is free and open to the public.

With the question “Young man, can you ride a horse?” Bob Richard embarked on his adventure as a Yellowstone Horse Ranger in the mid 1950s. Bob was stationed at Yellowstone’s Lake District as a Law Enforcement Seasonal Ranger with three horses, a horse trailer and related equipment.

His duties were numerous, including assisting tourists, road patrol, naturalist lectures, banding geese,...