Cowboy State Daily's The Roundup

About Cowboy State Daily's The Roundup

The Roundup is a gathering of voices, opinions and perspectives from interesting people in the Cowboy State of Wyoming.

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8 Dec 2023

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

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   22 Oct 2026

   Cowboy State Daily Video News: Thursday, October 22, 2026

   It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, October 22nd.  I'm Mac Watson. This newscast is brought to you by Casper Medical Imaging & Outpatient Radiology – Working to improve breast cancer screening rates across Natrona County and the state. If you're due for your mammogram, don't put it off any longer.  Self-schedule your screening mammogram at casper medical imaging dot net. – More than 100 people packed into the Midwest Recreation Center on Wednesday night to begin a four-day, full-court press to save grades 6-12 of their school which is on the Natrona County School District 1 chopping block. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson was at the meeting in Midwest and says people were upset, but organized. "I'm standing here in the Midwest Community Center, where they just got done with a public meeting. It was packed in here. There's more than 100 people, and basically, what they were doing was trying to figure out how to save their school. It seems like most of the people here just found out about this last week, and so they're rushing over the next few days, trying to organize to send emails, call school board members, call legislators, and the message is clear. They just want to save the school. They say it'll pretty much destroy the community, and so they want to send a message that hey, give us more time to figure out how we can make this work and not have to close it down." Parents, school staff and students are organizing an email and phone blitz targeting school district trustees ahead of Monday's school board meeting and Wyoming legislators with a single message — give us time to come up with alternatives to a drastic decision they say will devastate the close knit northern Natrona County oil town. Read the full story HERE. – A Rock Springs businessman said gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Bextel's accusations about him are "pissing him off." Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Bextel has claimed that Bruce Pivic approached her at a UW game, which he says didn't happen. "In one account, she claimed he was foaming at the mouth. She has said that he was demanding more money for the university and more help for the business community. And in a recent video, she said that it was Bruce Pivick. And Bruce Pivick has said all along, 'I never had any such interaction with her. I don't know what she's talking about. I don't know where she got this idea.' So Pivic set out this week to correct the record, because he had finally had enough. For one thing, she said that he is a UW trustee and on the Wyoming Business Council. For another, she said the man was about a foot shorter than she was. Pivic is 5'10" according to his driver's license, which he showed me on Wednesday, and Bextel is 5'9" according to her court record." Bextel has said repeatedly that the accoster, "Bruce," is on the Wyoming Business Council's board and the UW Board of Trustees, plus on the "board" of Barlow's campaign committee. The Wyoming Business Council and UW Board of Trustees don't share members currently, except for Gov. Mark Gordon, who serves both. Read the full story HERE. – The parents of a 26-year-old Casper woman who was killed while filming herself driving 105 mph off Highway 487 are heartbroken. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that as Sydney Ruschmann's parents rushed to the accident last week, her stepfather says an officer warned him, "Do not come here, sir. Do not come here." "Sydney Ruschmann was reportedly using a social media app called Snapchat when her tires left the pavement, going over 105 miles per hour. She overcorrected to the left, sending the Ford Contour into a passengers' side-leaning skid. She struck a delineator post before the vehicle rolled and ended up in the opposite ditch. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash happened at about 10 p.m. at night. By this time, her parents, Adam and Melinda Doyle, had been notified as her emergency contacts through her cell phone's emergency services, and so they started driving towards the scene of the crash because they could tell where her location was using the Find My App." According to Wyoming Department of Transportation crash data,  4,452 crashes involving suspected distracted driving happened between 2020 through 2024. Those crashes killed 52 people. Read the full story HERE. – The longtime Uinta County Coroner was arrested Wednesday morning. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that Gregory Crandall faces allegations that he stole more than $41,000 of public money, intentionally falsified a death certificate, and committed numerous other acts of misconduct. "DCI did an exhaustive investigation here, more almost more than a year and a half, and what they found, according to DCI, are allegations of a lot of financial alleged financial misappropriation services getting the county was getting billed for that weren't getting done, services that were greatly exaggerated with what the bills were. But some of them, a couple of the more serious allegations, one of them deals with allegations that the coroner deliberately altered a death certificate to cover up potential malfeasance in how they handled a body. And there's another allegation too about a body from an officer-involved shooting that was sent down to Denver to a pathologist down there. And when it arrived in Denver, it was just wrapped in a blanket. It didn't have all of the evidence tags. It wasn't put in plastic." The 66-year-old Crandall has been the county coroner since 2003 and is unopposed on the upcoming Nov. 3 general election ballot. Read the full story HERE. – I'll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cowboy State Daily News continues now…. – A Cheyenne man who told a trooper that a pound of meth that was sticking out from under his butt was just a burrito was sentenced to more than 8 years in jail last week. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports the trooper didn't believe the claim and called in a K9 which confirmed the substance. "A Wyoming trooper who stopped a 58-year-old Cheyenne man on I-80 and noticed that the man was sitting on something silver and cylinder-shaped. When the trooper asked about it, Matthew Jacoby told him it was a burrito. Federal prosecutors later said that the Wyoming trooper was prepared to testify that in his thousands of traffic stops, he's never seen anyone sitting on their food. Three weeks later, Jacoby was also caught throwing methamphetamine out of the window of a stolen Dodge." Authorities say Trooper Austin Barker was sitting in his patrol vehicle when a silver four-door Saab blew past him at 95 mph in a 75 mph zone on December 8, 2025. Barker pulled out and stopped Jacoby, who was alone behind the wheel. Read the full story HERE. – American Fertilizer is pitching a massive "world-scale" nitrogen fertilizer plant outside of Cheyenne. Cowboy State Daily's Emma Jane Jackson reports that Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins calls the prospect "an exciting opportunity." "A lot of the interest in this plant is coming from a national security angle. Right now, the U.S. imports a good chunk of the fertilizer. A lot of the fertilizer that U.S. farmers use is imported, so we're reliant on other countries to keep our supply chain going. The project is in very early development. It's a company called American Fertilizer. Right now, according to federal filings, they've raised over $2 million dollars from their own investments, but Mayor Collins told me that the project could be a lot bigger, even up to a multi-billion-dollar facility. Although the exact site has not been nailed down yet, Cheyenne looks promising and potentially having the plant at the Swan Ranch Business Park. Mayor Collins said this is a good spot because of the rail access and the intersecting highways." Cheyenne already has a nitrogen plant operated by Dyno Nobel, but American Fertilizer claims that its proposed facility would be the first world-scale nitrogen fertilizer plant in the region. Read the full story HERE. – Cody-based US Ballistic Laboratories plans to open a second military-munitions site in Romania to churn out 155-millimeter high-explosive shells. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that CEO John McCue says with conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, "everybody's scrambling" for ammunition. "They've got their occupancy permit for that space, and hope to be actually churning out ammunition very, very soon. The CEO, he's a Cody native, so he kind of wanted to bring the business back home anyway. And then it was just just a good location, and Wyoming is a very business-friendly as well as munitions-friendly location, and so that and plus that the fact that it's near a railspur also helped." A $25 million deal to establish an ammunition production facility with US Ballistic was announced in September by Romania according to international reports. McCue tells Cowboy State Daily before the announcement, US Ballistic was very much "below the radar" in Romania but is now well-known and generally highly regarded there. Read the full story HERE. – The story of a giant 28-foot inflatable pumpkin rampaging more than 60 miles across southeastern Wyoming is being reported by news outlets as "breaking news." Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that it's fake, another Casper Planet satire story picked up and reported as "real" news. "One outlet that I saw said that this is the Wyomingest thing ever. And I talked to Mr. Hathaway, who runs Casper Planet, and he says he can't believe that it took off the way it did, the story, not the pumpkin. And it's just incredible to him that people take that as real news when he goes out of his way to say this is satire. It's fake. I just make it up." The monstrous squash rambling across Wyoming toward Colorado was just the latest of those brainstorms, which he posted Sunday evening. The Wyoming Highway Patrol confirms it's had no reports of a giant pumpkin rolling anywhere. Read the full story HERE. — And that's today's news. Get your free digital subscription to Wyoming's only statewide newspaper by hitting the Daily Newsletter button on Cowboy State Daily Dot Com - and you can watch this newscast every day by clicking Subscribe on our YouTube channel, or listen to us on your favorite podcast app.  Thanks for watching - I'm Mac Watson, for Cowboy State Daily.

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   21 Oct 2026

   Cowboy State Daily Video News: Wednesday, October 21, 2026

   It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, October 21st.  I'm Mac Watson. This newscast is brought to you by Casper Medical Imaging & Outpatient Radiology – Working to improve breast cancer screening rates across Natrona County and the state. If you're due for your mammogram, don't put it off any longer.  Self-schedule your screening mammogram at casper medical imaging dot net. – The Oklahoma-based Chickasaw Nation has bought one of the biggest horse betting operations in Wyoming, including Horse Palace locations and Sweetwater Downs. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports the sale includes "the entire operations" of Wyoming Holdings LLC, said a gaming official. "It's unique. We've had tribes owning gaming operations in Wyoming for years, but they've been Wyoming-based tribes. The Northern Arapaho, the Eastern Shoshone have owned casinos on the reservation. Now we have an out-of-state tribe buying big gaming operations on state land, which is a little bit unique. The director of the gaming commission, Nick Larramendy, emphasized that the Chickasaw Nation has extensive experience with gaming and, in particular, horse racing." Global Gaming Solutions, which is a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation, received Gaming Commission approval late last week for its purchase of Wyoming Holdings LLC. That includes about 13 different facilities (https://www.horsepalace.win/), including live horse racing, off-track betting, historic horse racing machines and live betting. Read the full story HERE. – After a Cheyenne daycare provider allegedly blew a .40 BAC while caring for kids — five times the legal limit — a nurse says some people are unconscious at .15 and people over .50 still can walk and talk. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore went in search of answers to the question: How drunk is really drunk? "There is no hard and fast number. I spoke to a Wheatland nurse named Cory Meyer, who's encountered hundreds of drunk people in her career, and she said that though a BAC can tell how much alcohol is in someone's blood, there's no way to know how that number will affect a person cognitively. Meyer explains that some people have a much higher tolerance to alcohol. These are people who are usually daily drinkers, and so their body has become accustomed to processing those high levels of toxicity. The latest federal national survey on drug and health estimates that alcohol use is widespread in Wyoming." Most people know 0.08% as the line where it's illegal to drive. Double that, and a person can be severely impaired. WYDOT counted 622 alcohol-involved crashes in 2024: 25 of those were fatal. Read the full story HERE. – A Wyoming postal rep is filing a grievance because magazines, catalogs, and large envelopes that were supposed to be processed in Cheyenne are now going to Denver, adding at least a day to some Wyoming deliveries. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that Bob Jacknitsky, Wyoming's state representative for postal workers union NPMHU Local 321, calls the move, "ridiculous." "What he's hoping to get to is arbitration, where he feels like he'll get a fair hearing about his allegations. He's saying that taking the flats away from Wyoming violates the Postal Service's universal service obligation, and he doesn't believe that it's more efficient in saving any money. Wyoming has tens of thousands of these flats. They had three employees who were processing them. He feels that that was more efficient than sending them to Denver and then sending them back to Cheyenne." To document the delivery effects in Cheyenne, Jacknitsky has been mailing flats to himself, as well as documenting other examples. In one case, he says a flat mailed from Florida reached a Cheyenne address faster than one mailed within Cheyenne. Read the full story HERE. – Steve Harshman, the longest-serving state House member, and Republican nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruction, says he can't vote for the 50% tax cut in Prop 1. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports the legislator led a blockbuster effort to cut nearly all residential property taxes in 2024, but he says that measure had more guardrails. "Those in politics knew Representative Steve Harshman as the champion of property tax relief measures. He was trying to get rid of nearly all property taxes with a bill that would have replaced them with sales taxes at that time. Now the measure failed after days of controversy and debate. But then he came out on the debate stage last week and said he cannot support Prop 1. I asked him about that. He said it's apples and oranges, Clair, because my measure proposed a backfill with the sales tax hike, and it had a limit of a million-dollar cap, so you couldn't get the exemption on more than a million dollars' worth of home value." Property taxes fund public schools, community colleges, local governments and special districts. Firefighters are some of the most vocal opponents against plans to cut them. Read the full story HERE. – I'll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cowboy State Daily News continues now…. – Sublette County commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to uphold the expiration of a permit for a proposed residential trauma treatment center for girls near Pinedale. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports the owners say they've spent years on the project and might take the fight to court. "The Moyes family moved to Wyoming from California with the number one goal of building this sanctuary for girls ages 12 to 17. They bought property between Pinedale and Bondurant and intended to build this state-of-the art facility. Melinda Moyes told me there would be nothing like it in the country. However, county commissioners have pushed back on the project, saying that it has not met deadlines for getting certain permits, and because of that, they have failed to show reasonable progress in the four years that they've been trying to get going. And so, commissioners on Tuesday squashed the plan to move forward." The Sanctuary began as a deeply personal mission for the Moyes family. In 2014, trauma from a fire at their California home left their daughter with severe mental health challenges. As the family sought help, the family tells Cowboy State Daily they repeatedly encountered a troubling reality: Finding appropriate residential treatment for adolescent girls recovering from trauma was extraordinarily difficult. Read the full story HERE. – The driver for a popular music artist died from a medical emergency before the tour bus he was operating crossed three lanes of Interstate 25 and rolled near Cheyenne. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports one band member said, "It was a terrifying experience for everyone on board." "The family of a 50-year-old tour bus driver says that David Rollingcloud Jackson suffered a medical emergency and actually died while he was behind the wheel before a rollover in Cheyenne. He was driving for the artist Sawyer Hill when the incident happened. The vehicle went into three lanes before ultimately rolling. There were nine others on the bus. Several of them were injured, and Jackson died as a result." WHP spokesman Aaron Brown tells Cowboy State Daily the investigation is not concluded. Brown added that Jackson was driving a 2024 Freightliner M2 and no other vehicles were involved. Read the full story HERE. – Activists called the raid on an Idaho mink farm "liberation" for the 1,500 minks they released. But Cowboy State Daily's Emma Jane Jackson reports they can't take care of themselves, says the farm's owner, leaving many to die of heat, stress, or get run over. "The activists say that mink are known to be able to survive in the wild, but the farm owner says that that has not been the case. The Franklin County, Idaho Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident, but no arrests have been made yet. The farm owner's son said that this is an act of terrorism, but a spokesperson for an animal rights group that I talked to said that the real terrorists are the ones keeping the animals in cages. There is a history of similar activists facing legal consequences. One of them is Joseph Budenburg. He did a similar release of mink from an Idaho farm about 10 years ago. Actually did get convicted and spent time in prison. He told me that this action, though, is still justified, saying, 'The fur industry's days are numbered. Compassionate activists will continue to open cages and shut these places down.'" When he spoke to Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday, farm owner Jeff Hobbs said he was still working to gather the loose minks in Franklin County. At this point, he said about 90% of the mink have been caught. Read the full story HERE. – When a moose calf became hopelessly tangled in wire fencing near an Idaho woman's home, sheriff's deputy Shiloh Frantz came to the rescue. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports it wasn't easy. "He had bolt cutters, but the handles were too short on those tools. So he knew he needed something with a longer handle. The one thing he had in his truck were tree trimmers, which didn't do a great job of cutting the wire. He did manage to do it. What it did do was keep him a safer distance from the moose.The deputy told me that he used sweet talk on the moose. He said things like, "Hey, buddy, we're going to get you out of this. I'm going to help you. He said that that helped the moose. When the moose was freed, it ran to a field and it stopped. It turned back and looked at Deputy Frantz, and he said, 'it made my day.'" The rescue began when a woman in her mid-70s called the Latah County, Idaho's Sheriff's Office after discovering the calf tangled in wire fencing on her property. Read the full story HERE. — And that's today's news. Get your free digital subscription to Wyoming's only statewide newspaper by hitting the Daily Newsletter button on Cowboy State Daily Dot Com - and you can watch this newscast every day by clicking Subscribe on our YouTube channel, or listen to us on your favorite podcast app.  Thanks for watching - I'm Mac Watson, for Cowboy State Daily.

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   20 Oct 2026

   Cowboy State Daily Radio News: Tuesday, October 20, 2026

   It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, October 20th.  I'm Mac Watson. This newscast is brought to you by Casper Medical Imaging & Outpatient Radiology – Working to improve breast cancer screening rates across Natrona County and the state. If you're due for your mammogram, don't put it off any longer.  Self-schedule your screening mammogram at casper medical imaging dot net. – Although Wyoming has sent only Republicans to the U.S. House for 50 years, a national nonpartisan analysis group says the GOP lock on the state is no longer a certainty. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports Inside Elections has moved the race from "Solid Republican" to "Likely Republican." "So you got a political columnist saying, 'yeah, you got strife in the Republican Party nationally,' some 'Anyone But Chuck' people there in Wyoming, so couple that with Gray running ads on national, pretty generic, high interest issues right now. That Politico columnist took it as, 'Yep, this maybe is shaky.' Whereas Mary Kay Hill, a longtime politico here in Wyoming, who served as Governor Mead's chief of staff, she said, "Well, some of that advertising could be a response to just natural uncertainty about how many voters he'll pull from only having 25% coming out of the primary, and so there's a lot of unknowns." Wyoming hasn't elected a Democrat to its U.S. House seat in 50 years, and the GOP primary election historically decides the general election winner. Read the full story HERE. – When a horse got lost in Yellowstone with an iPhone in his saddle last week, Verizon declined to ping its location to help. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports the owner, Paige Chavez, was thrilled the horse was found safe, but remains unhappy with the company. "According to federal law, Verizon is legally obligated to help when there is a threat or danger to a person, but that provision did not apply in this situation because it was just the horse that was lost that is considered property. When Chavez and her family contacted Verizon, desperately seeking their help, the phone company was adamant that they could not give her any information. Ultimately, they did find the horse, but Chavez spoke with Cowboy State Daily and said she still hates Verizon." In its transparency reports, Verizon says it receives emergency requests from law enforcement involving threats of death or serious physical injury. In the second half of 2024 alone, Verizon reported receiving 36,564 emergency requests from law enforcement involving danger of death or serious physical injury. Read the full story HERE. – A 9-month-old Angus bull sold for a staggering $900,000 at a Billings auction Saturday. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports that buyers are betting his genetics will produce generations of premium cattle worth millions. "Auctioneer Roger Jacobs was very excited about this sale on Saturday. He got to the $900,000 and then started bidding for a million. And he was talking, he's saying, 'I've never asked for this. I've never asked for a million before.' It ended up stopping at 900,000, and he just exclaimed, 'I sold a bull for 900,000!' This was a record for the ranch, the Basin Angus Ranch in Montana, and it was also a record for the livestock barn in Billings. The money is more about the genetics and the physical makeup of the bull than it is about any meat that people will see in the freezer." The sale was an extraordinary moment for Montana cattleman Doug Stevenson, who has spent his life raising Angus cattle and knows a thing or two about producing valuable bulls. Read the full story HERE. – When a trailer flipped carrying cattle right outside a massive stock show and rodeo in Billings on Saturday, University of Wyoming grad Michaela Suter did what any rodeo person would do. Cowboy State Daily's Emma Jane Jackson reports that Suter called in the cowboys to wrangle the loose herd. "The Northern International Livestock Exposition, or NILE, was held in Billings over the weekend, drawing in thousands of people, when a livestock trailer carrying 84 head of cows crashed on the street right outside. With first responders arriving on the scene in minutes. Michaela Suter, the office manager for NILE and a University of Wyoming grad, decided to send in some more backup with two cowboys from NILE going out to help round up the cows. Traffic was at a standstill in one of Billings' busiest streets, and two pickup men on horseback with lassos came out.  They ended up lassoing a calf who had escaped from the trailer." Billings Fire Department Incident Commander Darrek Mitchell tells Cowboy State Daily that the one loose calf was secured quickly, and only one cow died in the aftermath. Mitchell guessed that the cow suffocated, which was a better outcome than in a similar incident in Miles City in 2025 where numerous animals had to be euthanized. The street was reopened in under two hours. Read the full story HERE. – I'll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cowboy State Daily News continues now…. – A Cheyenne woman who runs an in-home daycare faces a charge of child endangering after police say she blew above a 0.40% on a blood alcohol test during a welfare check at the home. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports 34-year-old Breanna Mallo faces a misdemeanor charge after she was found to be allegedly intoxicated and admitting to police that she was "drinking a Busch Light and Fat Tire beer." "What made this one stand out was, number one, that the suspect is running a home daycare business out of her home, and when police did a welfare check at the house, she blew a blood alcohol content of more than 0.40, which is more than five times the legal limit. I spoke to a retired law enforcement officer who was a sheriff in Wyoming for 16 years. He said in his nearly 40 years of law enforcement, he's only seen that level of blood alcohol content twice, but in both cases, those people were taken to the hospital to be evaluated because it's that dangerous. Anything over a 0.40, statistically speaking, you should be unconscious." The affidavit doesn't say why the Cheyenne Police Department Officer responded to Mallo's home Thursday afternoon, only that it was in response to a request for a welfare check. Read the full story HERE. – An otherwise healthy 7-year-old Gillette girl was airlifted to Denver last week after a routine cold suddenly turned serious. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports Octaveia "Tavey" Mindrumer's blood-oxygen level had plummeted, her heart was racing above 150 beats per minute and she needed continuous high-flow oxygen. "They sent her to school on Monday, but hours later, she would be sent to the emergency room in Gillette, struggling to breathe. At the ER, she was diagnosed with rhinovirus, which is extremely common and usually symptoms subside on their own. However, in her case, she was also diagnosed with acute respiratory illness, and she was life-flighted to Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora. After the girl arrived in Colorado, she was discharged the next day. Her parents said that doctors told them that this rhinovirus had made its way to her lungs, and that this year's rhinovirus has been a little bit more aggressive than in years past." Tavey's experience represents the extreme end of a common infection. Nationally, rhinovirus/enterovirus activity is elevated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest respiratory-virus update. Read the full story HERE. – The energy company behind a 2.7-gigawatt data center for Google in Cheyenne is donating $105 million to conservation and education efforts in Yellowstone. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports Gov. Gordon said he loves the Tallgrass donation because "Yellowstone needs infrastructure." "They said they wanted to do good for Wyoming. Wyoming's a huge part of their network, huge part of their story, and they said this was an area where we thought we could help Wyoming's kids and research and the infrastructure within the park, and Governor Gordon also was thrilled that there might be some people not thrilled with the private/public partnership, but he pointed out that there has been private industry involvement in Yellowstone pretty much all along." A Blackstone Infrastructure portfolio company, Tallgrass is headquartered in Kansas, operates primarily out of Colorado, and runs oil and natural gas infrastructure as well as carbon-sequestration operations. Read the full story HERE. – After spreading their father's ashes on an elk hunt in the Snowy Range, two Casper brothers used the 1977 Chevrolet Scottsdale pickup their dad bought new in Medicine Bow to recover an elk. Outdoors Reporter Mark Heinz  reports that one brother says, "It was like one last hunt with Pop." "They used the 1977 Chevy Scottsdale pickup that their dad bought brand new from Cooper Chevrolet and Medicine Bow in 1977. That truck is still in the family, like the year before he died. So in 2022, the dad, Ken, passed that pickup down to his son Doug, and Doug still has it. They used it to pull the camper up and use it to go hunting just about a week ago, so that it's just really kind of cool how they were able to, you know, bring everybody together and go hunting with their dad's truck like they did, so many years when when he was alive." The family has gone to Elk Hunt Area 12 in the Snowy Range every fall since the late 1960s, Rick tells Cowboy State Daily. And this year was no exception. Read the full story HERE. — And that's today's news. Get your free digital subscription to Wyoming's only statewide newspaper by hitting the Daily Newsletter button on Cowboy State Daily Dot Com - and you can watch this newscast every day by clicking Subscribe on our YouTube channel, or listen to us on your favorite podcast app.  Thanks for watching - I'm Mac Watson, for Cowboy State Daily.

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