15+ hour, 43+ min ago   (678+ words) Wyoming hall-of-fame auctioneer Tom Harrower has been building his collection of cowboy history, artifacts and collectibles since growing up on his family’s ranch near Kemmerer. “This is about preserving our stories before they are lost,” he said. Tom Harrower grew…...

16+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1703+ words) Legacy ranches across Wyoming are folding, and many of those remaining struggle to survive the "third-generation curse." Then there's the historic 145-year-old Ladder Ranch in the Little Snake River Valley with its fifth and sixth generations lined up. Wildlife still…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1374+ words) Workers in the Lance Creek oil fields in Niobrara County during World War II feared during they were on Hitler's hit list because 25% of Wyoming’s oil came from the area. Hitler never struck, and now about 50 people remain in a…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1270+ words) A 48-foot, 8,100-pound steel eagle in Mills was the biggest of 95 giant birds created by Montana artist Todd Berget. When a Casper businessman saw it while on a bus going to Glacier National Park, he decided to bring it to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1787+ words) In 1935, bones alleged to be Pinckney Sublette's were reburied overlooking the rendezvous grounds of mountain men near Daniel, Wyoming, after sitting in a Missouri courthouse closet. Whether those bones are actually his remains a mystery. Most Wyoming residents know the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (870+ words) But Suzi Taylor, a reference archivist at the Wyoming State Archives, said there’s a darker side to the studio’s history, because thousands of negatives in the studio’s collection — perhaps up to 50,000 — were literally taken to the city dump by its…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (1064+ words) Ray was known to be a cattle rustler and was involved in at least two major heists – the Belle Fouche Bank robbery and the Wilcox train robbery. Instead, Ray disappeared and, more than a century after his mysterious disappearance, has…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1696+ words) “Doc” Barry arrived in the Bighorn Canyon in the 1890s seeking gold, but after losing a fortune, he built a luxury dude ranch where guests could only get to via wagon or whitewater. All that remains today is a ghost camp…...