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Montana State University graduate student Angus Bisgard Cummings reveals how the return of bison to Montana has been, and continues to be, an issue of conflicted understandings of best land stewardship practices and competing ideas of cultural heritage.
Montana State University graduate student Angus Bisgard Cummings reveals how the return of bison to Montana has been, and continues to be, an issue of conflicted understandings of best land stewardship practices and competing ideas of cultural heritage.

![Snook Family – Rodeo with rodeo clowns
[silent] Snook Family moving image collection footage circa 1943, 1948 of a rodeo in an unidentified Montana location with rodeo clowns and outriders interacting with bulls and bull riders; the rodeo clowns on horseback following several men and women on horseback; bronc riders; and bulldogging. The film also shows dressage riding; a man balancing on a wire; and cowgirls on horseback riding in an arena. 1940s.
Filming was likely done by Earl Snook. Snook owned the Snook Art company in Billings, Montana. (collection MOV 0102)
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