It’s the least populated with more animals than people, yet it is one of the biggest in the USA. Wyoming is called the cowboy state and with good reason.

Can it really be a relevant alternative to the fancy slopes of Jackson Hole or as a viable gateway to Yellowstone, the world’s first national park? In light of the DVD and Blu-ray release of Wind River, I’ve taken the opportunity to see this extraordinary landscape for myself. Starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, it’s a modern-day murder mystery about the suspicious death of a young Native American woman and Wind River’s epic winter wilderness is front and centre. Its plains, forests and mountains teem with wildlife little wonder it was the setting for the recent movie Wind River. The Wind River Indian Reservation, at over 2 million acres of central western Wyoming, is a destination in itself. Jason is leading an ambitious project to breed back this almost extinct animal so the Shoshone can hunt it once again. Nothing and I mean nothing, went to waste on this animal.” “They are the direct descendants of the bison my forefathers hunted. “These guys are priceless part of the Yellowstone herd, perhaps the only genetically true bison left in the world,” whispers Jason Baldes, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe’s bison representative and the executive director of the Wind River Native Advocacy Centre. It’s a stare-off, but these magnificent creatures can stare at me all day long if they want because they are pretty special beasts. They are close enough for me to smell their breath and trust me, there is a lot of it.

Starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth OlsenĮarly morning on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming and I’m standing on the back of a truck looking at a herd of bison looking at me. Andy Mossack explores the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming the setting for the recent movie Wind River.

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