Image and definition 'sampled' from:
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language; copyright 1989.
Tonight's random selection and submission for your (and my) edification...
big-horn, n., pl -horns, (esp. collectively) -horn. a wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, of the Rocky Mountains, with large curving horns. Also called Rockey Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep.
Lewis and Clark are often credited with the discovery of bighorns. But they had been described before ...as early as 1540 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. They truly must have been an astonishing sight for transplanted Europeans.
More to come . . .and maybe not an animal next time..!!
...tom...
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