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Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame – Steven C. James: Chasing Cattle for over 65 years

Steve James of Daniel has been riding and checking cattle in the Hoback Basin since he was seven years old – a span of 65 years, even though he’s been riding for almost all his 73 years. In October he will be inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Candy MoultonAugust 02, 2024

At 108, Hazel Baumberger is the oldest living person in South Dakota. She also remembers attending the first Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, then just a race with nine bikes, in 1938.

South Dakota’s Oldest Woman Is 108, And Was At The First Sturgis Rally In 1938

Hazel Baumberger is 108 years old and attended the first Sturgis motorcycle rally in 1938 — and several others in decades since. Unable to attend anymore, bikers have decided to take the rally to her.

Justin GeorgeAugust 02, 2024

Sturgis Rally Is 'Super Bowl' For Wyoming Harley-Davidson Stores

Deluxe Harley-Davidson in Gillette, Wyoming, is open 14 straight days to cater to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally attendees. Just off Interstate 90 on the way to Sturgis, the rally represents the “Super Bowl” for the motorcycle shop.

Justin GeorgeAugust 02, 2024

Huge plumes of smoke can be seen for miles.

No Rain Relief For Wyoming Wildfires Until Next Week

As wildfires across Wyoming continue to pop up and grow, firefighters shouldn’t expect any help from Mother Nature anytime soon. There won’t be any rain relief for the fires until next week, meteorologist Don Day says.

Andrew RossiJuly 31, 2024

Former Wyoming college wrestlers Kendell Cummings, from left, Orrin Jackson, August Harrison and Brady Lowry got a free trip to Alaska to film a documentary on the 2022 grizzly attack they survived.

Wyoming Wrestlers Who Fought Grizzly Featured In New Documentary

A group of wrestlers from northwest Wyoming who successfully fought off an angry grizzly bear in 2022 were in Alaska this summer to face bears — and their fears — again. They’re part of a documentary about their story, which could start streaming in 2025.

Leo WolfsonJuly 29, 2024

Many of the graves in the Gebo cemetery hold children.

Dedication Will Remember Gebo’s Children, Forever Home In Wyoming Ghost Town Cemetery

A society that specializes in the absurd will get serious Saturday when it dedicates the Wyoming ghost town of Gebo. The former mining boom town is also the final resting place for many of Gebo’s children, who died during epidemics.

Jackie DorothyJuly 29, 2024

Jacob Wang from Laramie, Wyoming wrestles his steer in 7.2 seconds to place 4th in the Championship round at Cheyenne Frontier Days on July 28, 2024.

Cheyenne Frontier Days Photo Gallery: Monday, July 29, 2024

Cowboy State Daily photographer Matt Idler is at Cheyenne Frontier Days all 10 days of the event and will be producing photo galleries daily. Enjoy!

July 29, 2024

Denise’s Diner is for sale and the Teapot Motor Lodge is closed in Edgerton.

Edgerton: The Wyoming Oil Field Town That Refuses To Die

Like many areas around Wyoming, tiny Edgerton sprang up as an energy town and endured many booms and busts. It never died with the last bust, and the 120 or so people who still live here are working on a revival.

Dale KillingbeckJuly 28, 2024

John Prentice, a Union soldier in the Civil War from 1861-1865, kept a diary of his experience, which was recently discovered by his great-grandson, Doyl Fritz of Sheridan, Wyoming.

Sheridan Man’s Family Civil War Diaries Is A Glimpse Into America’s Deadliest Conflict

Doyl Fritz of Sheridan, Wyoming, spent a year transcribing the diaries of his great-grandfather John Prentice, who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. The lessons gleaned from the account of America’s deadliest conflict are priceless, he says.

Amber SteinmetzJuly 28, 2024

Noah Yenny, 3, pets the shell of Sweet Pea, a 12-year-old sulcata tortoise. Sweet Pea escaped the yard of his owner, Sabrina Hanson, and wandered a block away before being discovered grazing on a neighbor's lawn.

Sweet Pea, The Rescued Pet Tortoise In Cody, Keeps Escaping

Sweet Pea is a 12-year-old tortoise in Cody who keeps escaping his yard to graze on the front lawn of neighbors. And if there's something in his yard that doesn't like, he'll move it. His siblings, two giant mastiffs, know he runs things, so they stay out of his way.

Andrew RossiJuly 28, 2024

Street paster Nick Schindler is passing through Wyoming on his journey to Washington, D.C. He said he carries his cross “the length and the breadth” of every town and city he comes to, inviting people to converse with him.

Cross-Carrying Street Preacher Walks Across Wyoming On Way To D.C.

Nick Schindler has made his walk with Christ an arduously physical thing, and he’s bearing his cross — a literal 75-pound solid-wood cross — through Wyoming on his way across America.

Mark HeinzJuly 28, 2024

Lynn McColl has been volunteering for Cheyenne Frontier Days for 55 years with the parades committee. He's a member of the mounted marshals.

55-Year Cheyenne Frontier Days Volunteer Recalls When It Was Wilder

With more than 2,500 volunteers, Cheyenne Frontier Days has more helpers than many Wyoming towns. Lynn McColl, who has been a volunteers for 55 years, says it was wilder when he started. “I drank my first beer in Cheyenne riding down the street at 13 on a horse,” he said.

Renée JeanJuly 28, 2024

Director Christoffer Knuth and paleontologist Brock Sisson putting on the head of the Camarasaurus.

Massive Wyoming Dinosaur Shipped To Denmark Museum Got Lost In The Mail

An exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of a massive Camarasaurus has been unveiled at the Museum of Evolution in Denmark. But its 150 million-year journey from Ten Sleep, Wyoming, to Copenhagen included a week lost in the mail somewhere in Europe.

Andrew RossiJuly 28, 2024

Guapo is a huge 3,000-pound steer Lynn Jamerson rescued about eight years ago. The gentle giant has been featured in a couple of popular children's books, but now will retire to Wyoming from California.

Guapo, A Giant 3,000-Pound Celebrity Holstein Steer, Retiring To Wyoming Ranch

Guapo, a giant 3,000-pound Holstein steer, is one of the largest and most famous bovines in the world. The steer, which stands 6 feet, 2 inches tall at the shoulder and stars in a series of children's books, is retiring to a ranch in Rozet, Wyoming.

Andrew RossiJuly 28, 2024

Terri Smith went from being chief judge on the Wind River Tribal Court to serving time in federal prison for marketing pills. But then she got clean, came home to her children, and now she’s desperate to get her story out to others who struggle with addiction, to convince them there’s hope.

Former Wyoming Judge Busted For Drugs Now Spreads Recovery Story And Hope

Terri Smith was a respected Wyoming tribal judge before she was busted for dealing cocaine and helping to sell prescription drugs. Now she's working to help other addicts recover and find redemption through accountability and gratitude.

Clair McFarlandJuly 28, 2024

Artist Dan Toro makes progress on the mural of Casper Mountain a few days into his project.

Laramie Artist Creates Huge 60-Foot Mural In Downtown Casper

A Laramie artist is busy creating a huge 60-foot mural on the 42 Degrees North building in downtown Casper. It’s a wintery scene of Hogadon Basin Ski Area on Casper Mountain.

Dale KillingbeckJuly 28, 2024

The Hotel Labonte in Douglas was the site of a confrontation between the Converse County sheriff and a murderer in 1924.

Wyoming History: Casper Double-Murderer Shot Down By Sheriff In Douglas In 1924

It was 1924 when a double-dealing Casper businessman about to be caught embezzling snapped, killing his wife and son, then fled to Douglas. But he couldn’t outrun the law, gunned down in a shootout at the Hotel LaBonte with the local sheriff.

Dale KillingbeckJuly 28, 2024

Chancey Williams sings and plays guitar at the Sidewinder Saloon in Old Frontier Town at Cheyenne Frontier Days during the Teton Ridge Rodeo Roadtrip Show on July 26, 2024.

Cheyenne Frontier Days Photo Gallery: Sunday, July 28, 2024

Cowboy State Daily photographer Matt Idler is at Cheyenne Frontier Days all 10 days of the event and will be producing photo galleries daily. Enjoy!

July 28, 2024

The Navy Leap Frog parachute team always gets a huge crowd pop when it drops in from thousands of feet in the air with a huge American flag.

Meet The Elite Navy SEALs Who Drop 6,000 Feet At Cheyenne Frontier Days

It’s become a Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo tradition — the elite Navy SEAL Leap Frog team parachuting from 6,000 feet into the stadium. The SEALS say Frontier Days is a must event for them because it's a military town coupled with a cowboy culture.

Renée JeanJuly 28, 2024

A crowd gathered despite the rain for Big Boy's hourlong appearance in Cheyenne.

Big Boy 4014 Gets Huge Welcome As It Chugs Home To Cheyenne Depot

Big Boy 4014 was welcomed home in Cheyenne on Friday after a month-long summer tour in Utah, Nevada, California, Idaho, and Wyoming. An estimated 200,000 people came out on the tour to the see the world's largest working steam engine.

Renée JeanJuly 27, 2024

Veteran newspaperman Bill Sniffin with a signed miner's helmet, which he calls the greatest award he's ever received. It was a thank you from Lander-area miners after stories he published resulted in national legislation to help families of uranium miners.

Longtime Wyoming Newsman Bill Sniffin Wins National Lifetime Achievement Award

Bill Sniffin, who’s spent more than 50 years producing Wyoming newspapers, has been honored by the National Newspaper Association with its lifetime achievement award. Sniffin is also a columnist for Cowboy State Daily.

Jackie DorothyJuly 27, 2024

Wherever he's been, J.B. Zielke is always at home with a good horse.

No Matter Where He Roams, Wyoming Is Always Home For Lost Cowboy J.B. Zielke

Saratoga cowboy J.B. Zielke has cowboyed on six of the seven continents around the globe. But no matter how far he roams, the man known as The Lost Cowboy always comes home to Wyoming.

Renée JeanJuly 27, 2024

The American West: John C. Fremont - The Pathfinder Fights Indians, Encounters Grizzly Bear In Carbon County

John C. Fremont first came into Carbon County in August of 1843, traveling west and camping on the principal fork of the Medicine Bow River near “an isolated mountain called the Medicine Butte.” This of course, was Elk Mountain.

Candy MoultonJuly 27, 2024

In a viral video posted to TikTok and YouTube, creator TimtheTank demonstrates how people have been pouring their beer wrong. Tilting the glass for the pour is wrong, he says. Instead, pour into an upright glass and allow for a big head that will recede. But Wyoming brew experts say the perfect way to pour is determined by the type of beer.

Drinking Wyoming: A Perfect Beer Depends On A Perfect Pour

Despite what you may see on social media, there's no secret best way to pour beer. A top Wyoming brewer and owner of two breweries says the right method depends on the type of beer. And head retention, or foam, is critical.

Jake NicholsJuly 27, 2024

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