Fill in the Blanks COMPLETAOnline version LALKAALMDO by Jesus LOBO 1 Big Navaho goats fighting Indian mountains Bear Arizona goats mountain This story is about a shepherd named Big Bear . Long ago in Navaho Land , what is now and New Mexico , Big Bear lived in a picturesque one - room home made of logs chinked with adobe mud . His house was called a Hogan . Big Bear was an honest man who kept his word , hoed his corn , and lived at peace with the world . Big Bear kept two Billy at his Hogan in the winter , but when summer came he decided to take them to the where the pasture was good . He turned them loose in a spot where the grass was green and tender . But the goats did not eat . They jumped toward each other and started . Crack went their horns . Big Bear tried to separate them . He pushed and pulled and scolded them , but he could not make them part . At last , the first snow of winter began to fall , and Big Bear went to his Hogan in the valley . When the snow melted in the spring , returned to fetch his goats' home . He found them just where he had left them the year before , and they were still fighting . The ground was torn up and their fine horns were worn to dust . Their heads were gone too . They were butting each other with their necks . Big Bear returned to his Hogan in the valley without his two Billy . A year later he again went to the . There were the Billy goats in the same spot , fighting as hard as ever . The ground was more torn up than before , and the necks and chests of the animals were gone . They were punching each other with thir bodies .