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On the margins of Yellowstone National Park, this sheepherder's wagon is a testimonial to the presence of sheep-herding in the vicinity. These wagons have been home to a variety of (generally imported) laborers, whose job is tending the bands of sheep numbering from several hundred to a thousand animals, in their grazing across the West. Once so ubiquitious that they virtually controlled and modified large parts of the western landscape, bands of sheep are no longer so evident. But they can still be located, in places, and especially in Wyoming, Montana, and parts of Utah and Nevada. Once it was Basques or Italians who generally took care of sheep; more common now are workers of Peruvian or Mexican extraction.
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