Whiskey-Runnin’ Whoop-Up Trail

The landscape along the Whoop-Up Trail was “rolling prairie, cut up occasionally by collies [coulees]—covered with short, dried up grass and prickly pear—no other vegetation, and not a stick of wood between the Marias and Belly Rivers,” American prospector Charles Schafft said. Truth is, except where farmers have turned the land into fields, it is still pretty much like that. Forged as a trade route linking the American frontier with the Canadian outback, the Whoop-Up most likely got