A fabulous, ancient rock house on a creek bank about 23 miles southwest of Gillette is owned today by the family of Art Nisselius, who combined two newspapers in 1925 to form the News Record. But … more

The Kuhbachers have always looked ahead. Since Julius Kuhbacher heeded a letter inviting him to join Nebraska friends homesteading near Rocky Point, generations of Kuhbachers have toiled to … more

No ranch in Wyoming is arguably as famous as the 130-year old TA Ranch south of Buffalo. It was the site in 1892 of a fiery three-day shootout between a group of besieged Wyoming cattle barons, their … more

The true spirit of adventure and hard work is no more evident in any Campbell County pioneer than in the Danish plasterer’s son who landed in tiny Spotted Horse more than 100 years ago. The … more

The Werner family has Buffalo Bill Cody to thank for enticing a New York teen to come to the West in the early 1900s.It may never be known whether George Werner met the famed actor in his … 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

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

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

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

It’s likely that Recluse, Wyo., would never have survived the past 97 years if not for a band of renegade Indians on the Powder River.They had escaped their reservation, and the cavalry wanted … more