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Kiersten Black, 15, was no stranger to the adrenalin pumping through her when she spotted the bighorn sheep she’d been tracking through the steep canyons of Nebraskas Pine Ridge.

Kiersten Black, 15, of Sidney, harvested an animal in the state that none of the others can claim — a bighorn sheep.

Kiersten Black, 15, of Sidney, harvested an animal in the state that none of the others can claim — a bighorn sheep.

Kiersten Black drew the state's only resident lottery tag in September. She killed the big ram in the Nebraska panhandle on Dec. 2.

Kiersten Black, 15, recently shot the world-class trophy-caliber ram on private land in the Pine Ridge escarpments southwest of Chadron.

Kiersten Black, 15, was no stranger to the adrenalin pumping through her when she spotted the bighorn sheep she’d been tracking for seven hours through the steep canyons of Nebraskas

A teenage girl from Sidney bags a bighorn sheep.