Grazing sheep at the turn of the century (a rare cyanotype in
USU 's Special Collections) Here in Cache Valley, the bands of
sheep we see nowadays would most likely be from the Goring
Ranch, based in neighboring Box Elder County's Deweyville. Bill
Goring's mother and grandmother resting against a sheep camp
around the year 1916 The Goring family has been in the sheep
business from as far back as 1892 when John Henry Goring, the
father of Bill Goring, ran sheep out of Idaho in partnership
with his wife's father, John Selman. After John Henry Goring's
early death, the young Bill Goring continued to live and work on
the ranch with his grandfather Selman. During the Depression of
the thirties, John Selman lost everything when the bank
foreclosed. But his grandson, Bill, had a small flock he'd
raised on his own and, from these 100 sheep, Bill eventually
built up a herd that numbers somewhere around 7,500 head after
spring lambing. Shown below is a young Bill Goring on horseback
in front of the indispensable sheep