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The Pryor Mountains are a mountain range in Carbon and Big Horn counties of Montana. They are located on the Crow Indian Reservation and the Custer National Forest and portions of them are on private land. They lie south of Billings Montana and north of Lovell Wyoming.The mountains are named for Sergeant Nathaniel Hale Pryor a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who vainly pursued horses stolen from the expedition in the area.