Called Awaxaawippiia by the Apsaalooka (Crow) Indians, the Crazy Mountains are an igneous formation forged about 50 million years ago and, for the Apsaalooka, the most sacred and revered mountains on the northern Great Plains. Awaxaawippiia was a place of refuge and protection because the Apsaalooka's enemies would not follow them into the mountains, and because of their great spiritual power it continues to be an important vision quest site for the tribe. Chief Plenty Coups had a vision there in 1857 in which, he said, the end of the plains Indian way-of-life was shown to him. Several stories tell how the mountains got their current name, with the most popular holding that a woman traveling across the plains with a wagon train went insane, escaped from the party, and was found near these mountains, which were then called the Crazy Woman Mountains before the name was shortened. This district was great cow country in the days of the open range, and it still has a number of large cattle ranches, while the town of Two Dot takes its name from an early day brand.