Hardship and poverty were just part of pioneering for most of Campbell County’s first residents, but it took decades of fierce loyalty between two German families to tame the frontier around … more

At a time when many men would be looking toward their final years, Frank Scott embarked on a new life. At age 52, the Missouri coal miner brought his wife, Mollie, and youngest son, Harold, 9, to … more

In 1889, about the time the Burlington & Missouri Railroad decided to build a line through northeast Wyoming, the horse and mule market tanked. That’s when 28-year-old Missouri mule trader William … more

Movie stars and longhorn cattle; colorful bachelors and hard-riding bronc tamers – there’s always been something glamorous about Campbell County’s 110-year-old 60 Bar Ranch.Most … more

A building on the Daly Ranch reflects not only the foundation of the Twenty Mile Land Co. and its 117-year history, but also its future in Campbell County. With the country still in the midst of … more

J.F. “Fred” Davis didn’t plan on homesteading in Campbell County when he first made the difficult 10-day trip to Wyoming in a Model-T Ford and trailer in 1916 or 1917. The former U.S. … more

While images of Campbell County’s settlers usually bring to mind rough-edged cowboys, the first people to begin ranching in northeastern Wyoming were actually wealthy and aristocratic.In 1884, … more

Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who used a Campbell County ghost town named Lightning Flats in her short story, “Brokeback Mountain,” would have had a ball with … more

Ninety-five years ago, Jacob Gilbertz was lured to Campbell County by the offer of free land. The then 20-year-old had been working as a farmer on his Uncle Nick’s land in Nez Perce, Idaho, had … more

More than a century before Campbell County became the leading oil producer in a state that ranked seventh last year in production, it had actual oil prospectors. From 1872 through 1920, anyone over … more