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The Pleasant Valley Sheep War broke out in Arizona in the 1880s between two families, the sheep-herding Tewksburys and the cattle-herding Grahams. By the war’s end, nearly every family member of both clans was dead.

How to buy wool like a pro, with the help of an actual wool expert.

How the sheep came to be one of the more exalted forms of livestock in Victorian England.

We talk to Al Roker about his love of lamb, why he’d never hack it as a line chef, and why it’s important to support the small-scale American farmer.

Unique to Australia, this subspecies of the wolf is considered both a pest animal and a national icon, protected on conservation lands and killed in farm country.

Dolly's life began in secrecy; her Scottish creators kept her under wraps for eight months. But when her existence was finally leaked to the media, Dolly rapidly ascended to "World...

Tell-all interview with Robert Carlock, “30 Rock” co-creator, about his terrifying mascot, Woollie.

Craig Rogers of Border Springs Farm in Patrick Springs, Virginia, shares several important lessons about sheep that he’s learned during his life as a shepherd and sheep farmer.

Mutton busting is simple: children between the age of 4 or 7 clamber aboard a wild, wooly sheep and try to hold on for six seconds.