Journey into Pryors is journey to ‘Edenic past’

A visit to the Pryors http://www.pryormountains.org/welcome-to-the-pryors/why-are-the-pryors-special/ is a return to the roots of Planet Earth.

Should you go to the Pryors, treat them with the reverence they deserve. Be quiet, and you may hear an answer that you’ve been waiting for all of your life.

The Pryor Mountains, reaching an elevation of only 8,823 feet, by Montana standards barely qualify as mountains. But elevation isn’t their claim to fame.

The Pryors are sacred to the Crow tribe, and also connect humans to history – from the 19th century back to a time that William Faulkner called the Edenic past, a string of years we almost can’t grasp. A visit to the Pryors is a return to the roots of Planet Earth.

South of the reservation town of Pryor, past the end of the pavement, a sign on the right side of the road reads "The Bozeman Trail" with an arrow pointing west. Wagon tracks show here and there through the grass.

That remnant of human passage, still visible after 145 years, accentuates the fragility of Eastern Montana’s high plains.

By SHARIE PYKE – For The Outpost

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