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Arizona

Sheeps Bridge

A beautiful piece of history in a very remote area that allowed ranchers to move their herds.
Sheep at Colonial Williamsburg on a sunny day.
19th century

Little Lambs, Big Back Story

Originally smuggled into the American colonies, the Leicester Longwool sheep went extinct here during the rise of Merino wool. Then Colonial Williamsburg brought it baaa-ck.
Gifting animals, games, and cakes.
games

5 Tales of Bizarre Holiday Gift-Giving

From elephants and hippos to fanfiction and sheep-shearing cake—what are you gifting this year?
Roxanne Hoorn December 5, 2024
Stow-on-the-Wold, England

The Tures

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.
Researchers are rushing to document carvings made by Basque herders, before they're gone.
trees

The Disappearing Arborglyphs Carved by Sheepherders Across the American West

Basque immigrants inscribed jokes, names, and historical happenings on aspen trees.
Iñaki Arrieta Baro July 15, 2024
hotels

Podcast: Nevada Week: The Martin

Feast like a sheepherder at a Basque boarding house turned restaurant.
Caraway and candied citrus flavor the buttery sponge.
cake

Welsh Sheep-Shearing Cake Is a Forgotten Pastoral Pleasure

Cacen gneifo was a traditional gift for farmhands during wool-gathering season.
Jamie Ellis September 22, 2023
Olympic Valley, California

Whiskey Creek Camp

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Hämmelsmarsch Fountain

Some believe that the artist behind this whimsical statue inserted his own likeness as a way to discreetly flip the bird.
Every year in the remote reaches of northeastern Georgia, shepherds drive hundreds of sheep along a dangerous mountain trail to seasonal pastures. In May and June, shepherds make the trek up to pristine summer pastures high in the Caucasus Mountains. Then, in September and October, they drive the sheep back down to the valleys below.
art

The Stark Beauty of Tushetian Shepherds’ Journey Across Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains

These stunning photographs reveal the determination and resilience of a centuries-old way of life.
Sarah Durn March 2, 2023
holiday

Podcast: Trailing of the Sheep

What happens when thousands of ovids take over an Idaho town.
Viskafors, Sweden

Viskafors Blå Får (Blue Sheep of Viskafors)

A flock of peculiar-colored sheep graze in this small Swedish town.
Geelong, Australia

Stanbury Jacko

A stuffed, prize-winning ram is all that remains of a world-renowned stud line, and a reminder of its owner's gruesome end.
The historic bar has been a meeting point for area cowhands and sheepherders for nearly a century.
bars

For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

You could own the busiest watering hole for miles.
Luke Fater December 5, 2019
Edinburgh, Scotland

Sheep Heid Inn

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.
A sheep and a bear square off in a 2018 protest in France.
hunting

In the Pyrenees Mountains, It’s Bears vs. Sheep vs. Humans

A bear named Claverina has stoked an age-old debate about where predators belong.
Sabrina Imbler September 3, 2019
It takes 20 sheep to make 2.2 pounds of Torta del Casar.
Casar de Cáceres, Spain

Museo del Queso

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.
Gastro Obscura

Montebore

By the 21st century, one lone woman held the recipe for what might have been da Vinci’s cheese of choice.