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View allHistorical Artist Recreates Images Of Wild West Wyoming In Exact Detail
A historical artist has recreated images of some of the most important Wild West events in eastern Wyoming history. Goshen County has so much history because it is located at a popular spot along the Oregon Trail.
Renée JeanApril 28, 2024
Wyoming’s Fort Caspar Opens After Hours To Paranormal Investigators
Voices from the ether, wet footprints where nobody’s been and a running boy are only a few of the unexplainable things people experience at Wyoming’s historic Fort Caspar, which opens after hours twice a year in October and April to paranormal investigators.
Dale KillingbeckApril 28, 2024
Youth Leader Says Casper Has To Stop Finger-Pointing After Bobby Maher Stabbing
YMCA youth leader DC Martinez says finger-pointing must stop and everyone needs to work together to end violent youth “fight culture.” Martinez grew up in Las Vegas and said he understands gang culture and the pressures facing the city’s youth.
Dale KillingbeckApril 28, 2024
Wyoming Man Who Saved Family From Burning House Awarded Nation's Highest Heroism Award
Ryan Pasborg’s life has changed dramatically since he rescued a Green River mother and son from their burning home. Now with a new job, he was presented the Carnegie Medal on Saturday, the nation’s highest civilian honor for heroism.
Leo WolfsonApril 28, 2024
Woolly Mammoths In Yellowstone? Biotech Company Says It Has The Technology
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth by 2028. They think Yellowstone could be a good place for reintroduction as the environment is pristine and isolated enough for them to thrive.
Andrew RossiApril 27, 2024
Man Who’s Spent 18 Years In A Horse-Drawn Wagon Is Rolling Across Wyoming Again
A man calling himself Lee The Horselogger has lived on the road in a horse-drawn wagon for 18 years. He's making his way across Wyoming again on his fifth trip across America. Cowboy State Daily caught up with him near Hanna.
Mark HeinzApril 27, 2024
100-Foot-Tall, 40-Room Castle For Sale In Bedford, Wyoming, For $14 Million
Many children grow up dreaming of one day living in a castle, but Deon Heiner of Bedford, Wyoming, actually did it. The 40 room, 100-foot-tall Heiner Castle -- which took 8 years to build -- is listed for $14 million.
Renée JeanApril 27, 2024
Inside Wyoming’s Uranium Revival At Lost Creek, Largest Producer In The US
Wyoming dominates the uranium sector mining about 95% of all production last year. Ur-Energy’s Lost Creek operation in Wyoming’s vast Red Desert is the leading the uranium boom and is largest producer in the U.S. Cowboy State Daily visited the operation last week.
Pat MaioApril 27, 2024
Wyoming History: The Incredible, And ‘Terrifying’, Dale Creek Bridge
In 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad’s Dale Creek Bridge southeast of Laramie was an incredible engineering marvel that was 650 feet long and 150 feet high. Train engineers said it was so “terrifying to cross” that few would agree to do it.
Dale KillingbeckApril 27, 2024
Drinking Wyoming: Sweet Melissa, The Secret Cocktail At Miners and Stockmen’s
Wyoming’s famous Miners and Stockmen’s Steakhouse -- the oldest bar in Wyoming -- always gets rave reviews for its high-end steaks. Now it’s got the Sweet Melissa, a cocktail on its secret menu that’s named after their beloved late colleague.
Renée JeanApril 27, 2024
Wyoming 8-Year-Old Shows Plenty Of Fight While Heart ‘Slowly Giving Up’
Wyatt Morgan, an 8-year-old first grader from Carpenter, Wyoming, remains hospitalized after battling a progressively worse ailment that was filling his lungs with fluid and had his heart “slowly giving up.”
Leo WolfsonApril 27, 2024
‘The Casper Vigilantes’: A Secret Group Of Wyoming Prohibition-Era Crime Fighters
Bob David, a World War I veteran and businessman, got fed up with crime and corruption within law enforcement during Prohibition in Casper so he formed a secret group that called themselves "The Vigilantes." They took on an "epidemic" of bank robberies in the area.
Dale KillingbeckApril 27, 2024
Opinion
Joan Barron: "We Want It To Be As Pure As Can Be"
Opinion by Joan Barron
Bill Sniffin: I Own 2 Million Acres Here In Wyoming — And You Do, Too
Opinion by Bill Sniffin
Aaron Turpen: 2024 Nissan Sentra Proves That Sedans Are Still a Great Place To Start
Opinion by Aaron Turpen
Dennis Sun: Every Day Should Be Earth Day
Opinion by Dennis Sun
Aaron Turpen: Wyoming Has Fewer Auto Loan Defaults Than Any Other State
Opinion by Aaron Turpen
Opinion
View allBill Sniffin: I Own 2 Million Acres Here In Wyoming — And You Do, Too
Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “About 90 minutes north of us is the 2,221,766-acre Yellowstone National Park. That is one helluva piece of spectacular real estate. We share that with 4 million other owners each summer.”
Bill SniffinApril 27, 2024
Joan Barron: "We Want It To Be As Pure As Can Be"
Cowboy State Daily columnist Joan Barron writes, "Does a Wyoming third political party have any chance at all to gain power this election year given the yawning fissures in the state’s dominant Republican party?"
Joan BarronApril 27, 2024
Tom Lubnau: EPA Increases Wyoming Industry Political Risk, Again
Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, ""On Thursday, the EPA announced all coal-fired power plants must be shuttered by 2032, or be converted to gas and shuttered by 2039. But, fossil fuel driven power plants can add carbon sequestration facilities and stay open."
Tom LubnauApril 25, 2024
Wyoming Life
View allWyoming’s Dusty Tuckness Is The Best Rodeo Bullfighter In The History Of The Sport
Jake NicholsApril 26, 2024
Wyoming Man Selling Massive 1-Ton Petrified Hollow Log For $20,000
Andrew RossiApril 24, 2024
Pinedale Waits On Bob, A Barrel In The Middle Of Fremont Lake, To Announce Spring
Andrew RossiApril 22, 2024
Heart Mountain Chosen For Prestigious Smithsonian Partnership
Andrew RossiApril 22, 2024
Can Town Of Daniel Ever Regain Old Image Of Fishing And Hunters' Paradise?
Pat MaioApril 22, 2024
Outdoors
View allThe Creative, Fun And Slightly Twisted ‘Rogue Taxidermy’ Movement
Mark HeinzApril 27, 2024
Wyoming Deputy Has Rare Encounter With Grizzly Near Kemmerer
Mark HeinzApril 26, 2024
Feds Approve Grizzlies Back In Washington State, Wyoming Bears Likely To Be Used
Mark HeinzApril 26, 2024
Wyoming Outdoorsmen Praise New Laser-Guided, Flamethrowing Robot Dog
Mark HeinzApril 26, 2024
Tourist Season Has Begun: 'New Levels Of Stupidity' Already Seen In Yellowstone
Andrew RossiApril 25, 2024
Crime & Courts
View allOne Dead In 'Suspicious' Riverton House Fire
Clair McFarlandApril 27, 2024
A Year After Deadly Shootout, Thermopolis Cop Has Plenty Of Local Support
Clair McFarlandApril 27, 2024
Pinedale Officials Get Threats Over $400 Fines For Girl Scout Cookie Sales
Pat MaioApril 27, 2024
Fremont County Tops In Homicides Despite Having Only 6.8% Of Population
Clair McFarlandApril 25, 2024
IRS, State Hit Wyoming School District With $46,000 In Fines
Clair McFarlandApril 25, 2024