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Wyoming Teen Ranked Among The Best Fortnite Players On The Planet
Ryder Tillard of Douglas recently achieved the highest rank in the online video game Fortnite. That puts the 19-year-old among the top 0.2% of the more than 3.8 million ranked players worldwide.
Amber SteinmetzAugust 11, 2024
Original Hulett Ham And Jam Girl Remembers A More Wild, Raucous Party
Brandi Kelly was one of the first Ham and Jam girls for the annual party that brings 30,000 people to tiny Hulett, Wyoming, during the Sturgis rally. She says it was wilder then, but it’s still magic because it brings people together.
Renée JeanAugust 11, 2024
Wyoming Senior Olympian Still Winning Gold Medals At 105
Laramie resident Gerry Meyer is 105 years old and still winning gold medals at the Wyoming Senior Olympics. At this year’s games, he won the 50- and 100-meter dashes, beating his 2023 50-meter mark by 3 seconds.
Renée JeanAugust 11, 2024
Wyoming Supersaurus Was The Shaq Of The Jurassic: Super-Sized, But Not Super-Old
New research on the age of Wyoming's largest dinosaur determined the 108-foot-long, 50-ton giant from Douglas was definitely an adult when it died, but probably wasn't as old as its bones might suggest.
Andrew RossiAugust 11, 2024
How One Rowdy Bar Customer Sparked 50 Years Of Sturgis-Week Burnouts In Sundance
The annual Burnout Wednesday during Sturgis rally week in Sundance, Wyoming, has been a must-do for bikers for nearly 50 years. It began with one rowdy customer who threatened to burnout inside the Dime Horseshoe Bar.
Renée JeanAugust 11, 2024
Fair Week Is Super Bowl For Wyoming’s 4-H Champions
Fair week is like the Super Bowl for hundreds of 4-H kids across Wyoming. Like Timber and Morgan Elkins, who spent an exhausting — and exhilarating — week with their champion cows at the Campbell County Fair.
Jen KocherAugust 10, 2024
Wyoming Roller Derby Players Share A Common Passion — Hitting People
Almost to the last player, women who make up Wyoming’s roller derby scene say there’s one thing they love about their sport — hitting people. But there’s actually a method to the mayhem these divas on roller skates commit.
Dale KillingbeckAugust 10, 2024
Want To Be A Character In A C.J. Box Book? Once A Year, You Get A Chance
Being a character in a “Joe Pickett” novel would be a dream come true for many fans of Wyoming author C.J. Box. So, he offers it up as an auction item to benefit his hometown Saratoga Museum.
Renée JeanAugust 10, 2024
Cowboy State Daily Interview: 50 Years Of George Thorogood Is Awesome To The Bone
Ahead of his Aug. 14 date at the Wyoming Ford Center in Casper, Cowboy State Daily’s Jake Nichols caught up with blues-rock legend George Thorogood. He still loves touring and never tires of playing his signature “Bad to the Bone.”
Jake NicholsAugust 10, 2024
From Top Of Everest To Biking Across Russia, Wyoming Adventure Writer Gets Around
Laramie’s Mark Jenkins still travels the world seeking adventure. The longtime National Geographic writer who has climbed Mount Everest, covered the war in Afghanistan, cycled through Russia, and kayaked inside glaciers plans to get back on his bike for a trek across Europe.
Dale KillingbeckAugust 10, 2024
Teddy, Stolen Poodle Found During Wyoming Police Stop, Finally Back Home
A miniature poodle named Teddy is back with his owner nearly a year after a man allegedly stole him and smuggled him into Riverton, Wyoming. After about three weeks and more than 3,500 miles, Teddy arrived home Friday night.
Clair McFarlandAugust 10, 2024
Wyoming Artist Bob Coronato’s “Trump Train” Painting Catches Fire With MAGA Nation
Hulett, Wyoming, artist Bob Coronato already has a painting in the Smithsonian. The artist, best known for painting historical figures, has painted six Trump campaign posters, and is planning to show them to the former president at a fundraiser this weekend in Jackson.
Renée JeanAugust 10, 2024
The Party Next Door: Hulett's Ham And Jam On Wednesday Of Sturgis Week
Although the topless rodeo is no longer allowed, Hulett's annual Ham and Jam still gets wild. Some 30,000 bikers head to the town on Wednesday of Sturgis week for free pork sandwiches, music, insanity, and surprisingly, very few arrests.
Renée JeanAugust 10, 2024
Severe Wyoming Weather, And Threat Of More, Cuts Short Gillette Camporee
The International Pathfinder Camporee brought 60,000 people to Gillette, Wyoming. But after a week of severe Wyoming weather, and threat of more, has cut short the huge gathering of Seventh-day Adventists.
Jen KocherAugust 09, 2024
Photographer At Fort Caspar Uses Civil War Techniques To Make New History
This prominent Civil War-era reenactor isn’t a soldier for either side, he’s the photographer. At Fort Caspar, he makes his own vintage images using the same techniques — and in some cases same equipment — as during the Civil War.
Dale KillingbeckAugust 09, 2024
Camporee Brought 60,000 People To Gillette, But Not Enough Porta-Potties
The International Pathfinder Camporee brought 60,000 people to Gillette this week but not enough porta-potties. One youth leader says the foul situation ruined it for his group, while the sanitation contractor says they needed 1,000 more.
Jim LuksicAugust 09, 2024
“They Are Brothers”: Wyoming Honor Guard Never Lets A Soldier Be Buried Alone
The members of the Natrona County United Veterans Honor Guard have attended thousands of Wyoming military funerals over the years. No matter when they served, they say veterans deserve an honor guard because “they are brothers.”
Dale KillingbeckAugust 08, 2024
Fire Crews Use High-Tech Drones To Keep Clearwater From Yellowstone Entrance
High-tech drones dropping incendiary “dragon eggs” are among the tools wildland firefighters are using to keep the Clearwater Fire in northwest Wyoming from closing the East Entrance to Yellowstone.
Jackie DorothyAugust 08, 2024
How An Important 1877 Soldier’s Diary Wound Up In A Wyoming Bank Vault
Maj. George “Sandy” Forsyth’s 1877 diary was on its way to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., in 1960. But its owner decided it belongs in Wyoming where it was written, and it’s been in a Thermopolis bank vault for nearly 65 years.
Jackie DorothyAugust 08, 2024
Sick Wyoming Woman Pulls Out Of World’s Toughest Horse Race, Then Is Abandoned In Mongolia
Dede Anders knew she was too sick to ride 620 miles across Mongolia, then was abandoned halfway around the world Wednesday. The Wyoming woman was there to compete in the Mongol Derby, but race organizers left her in a hotel room without medical care.
Andrew RossiAugust 07, 2024
Here Comes The Cold! Canadian Front Will Drop Wyoming’s Temps 30 Degrees
Cold air from Alaska will break the sweltering summer heat across Wyoming on Thursday and Friday and bringing plenty of rain with it. The high temperature in Cheyenne on Thursday will only be 58 degrees.
Andrew RossiAugust 07, 2024
Meet Deirdre Griffith, First Wyoming Woman To Win World's Longest Horse Race
Deirdre Griffith of Jackson, Wyoming, became the first Wyoming woman to win the grueling Mongol Derby, a 620-mile horse race across Mongolia. Although she won in 2022, Griffith said the money she raised then is still helping people.
Andrew RossiAugust 07, 2024
Don Day Says Don't Trust Winter Forecasts That Come Out In Middle Of Summer
Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Don Day says he understands why people are interested in long-range forecasts but the idea that you can predict winter weather in the middle of summer is ridiculous and the results are "outrageously bad."
Andrew RossiAugust 06, 2024
Recovery Begins At Hartville, The Historic Mining Town That Nearly Went Up In Flames
The historic mining town of Hartville, Wyoming, came within inches of going up in flames this past week. Folks are shell-shocked as they recover from a wildfire that turned much of the land around them into an apocalyptic nightmare.
Pat MaioAugust 06, 2024