Name: Medicine Lodge Canyon

County: Big Horn

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Longitude:  1073224W

Latitude: 441755N

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Elevation: 4800/1463

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Feature Type: Valley

Origin of Name:

Canyon of the creek where paintings and carvings by Indians are on the face of a sheer sandstone cliff. A big encampment of Crow Indians wintered here in 1882. There were about 200 teepees and much “medicine was made.”

Source: WPA

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Hyatt Ranch

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