More than any other creature, antelope are emblematic of the lonesome, wide-open spaces of America’s Great Plains. It’s a hostile and barren environment, in which the animals face temperature ranges from -40 to a 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Passing trains sometimes kill dozens at a time as the animals seek out the snow-free conditions of plowed railroad tracks, and in the summer they’ve been known to stand within the slender ribbons of shade provided...