I'm at a parade in Ketchum, Idaho, and I'm there watching some real parade classics.

I'm watching people riding horses, beg-pipe players, and then...

And coming our way, please welcome Miss Lambchops, basking in the fun.

Miss Lambchops is in an old-timing blouse and skirt wearing a beauty patented sash and

a full lamb mask, lamb, like ba.

It's kind of cute, it's kind of scary, but she's there because lamb sheep is what this parade

is all about, all of this, the riders, the beg-pipes, Miss Lambchops, it's all just an appetizer

for the main attraction.

That's right, 1,500 sheep about to stampede right through this small downtown.

It is like the running of the bulls in Spain, but with less deadly goring.

And I can see the sheep there in the distance now bowing their fluffy little white heads,

stamping their hooves, and getting ready to charge.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

This small town big story episode was produced in partnership with GoUSA TV, and today we

are taking you to Ketchum, Idaho, just about a two and a half hour drive from Boise, Idaho.

It's a place where locals are keeping generations old ranching tradition alive, by holding an

annual festival where the sheep take over the downtown, more after we come back.

Way back there, you can see them, they're coming around the bend there, they're gonna

be here any second.

It's just a heck of a lifestyle, I guess, I get the run dirt roads every day.

It's liberating, it's free.

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