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Daily Cartoon 2: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

Mostly sunny in Wyoming on Monday with chance of rain in west and central Wyoming. Chance of rain overnight. Hot with highs mainly in the 80s and 90s. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 60s.

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Patchy smoke after 1 p.m., partly sunny today with a high near 91 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Breezy, cloudy then gradually becoming partly cloudy overnight with a low near 60 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

Chance of rain mainly after 5 p.m., patchy smoke after noon, partly sunny today with a high near 92 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 8 p.m., a low near 59 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

 Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., patchy smoke, partly sunny today with a high near 93 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 11 p.m., a low near 60 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph.

 Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., mostly cloudy today with a high near 85 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 49.

  Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., patchy smoke, partly sunny and breezy today with a high near 90 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 8 p.m. and a low near 56.

Patchy smoke before 10 a.m., chance of rain, otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 85 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain mainly after 2 a.m. and a low near 50.

Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., mostly cloudy today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Cloudy then becoming partly cloudy late overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 48.

 Chance of rain, mostly cloudy today with a high near 86 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 51.

  Patchy smoke before 11 a.m., chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., mostly cloudy today with a high near 84 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Cloudy then becoming partly cloudy late overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 47.

 Rain likely, mostly cloudy today with a high near 78 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 49.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., mostly cloudy today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Cloudy then gradually becoming partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 52.

Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park

:  Chance of rain, mostly cloudy today with a high near 78 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight and a low near 44.

Chance of rain mainly after 5 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 92 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Mostly cloudy and breezy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 11 p.m., a low near 60 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.

:  Chance of rain, otherwise partly sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 59.

  Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., increasing clouds today with a high near 83 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 57 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 84 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before 1 a.m., a low near 61 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

  Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 88 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 59.

:  Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 86 and wind from 11-16 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 58.

Partly sunny today with a high near 91 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before midnight, a low near 61 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 94 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain, a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

:  Mostly sunny today with a high near 95 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before midnight, a low near 63 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.

  Mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 99 and becoming mostly clear overnight with a low near 65.

  Mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 92 and mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 60 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Patchy smoke after 3 p.m., slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 90 mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 11 p.m., a low near 59 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.

  Mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 92 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 59.

  Partly sunny today with a high near 86 and gradually becoming mostly clear overnight with a low near 54.

  Partly sunny and hot today with a high near 90 and becoming mostly clear overnight with a low near 53.

  Partly sunny today with a high near 89 and gradually becoming mostly clear overnight with a low near 56.

  Partly sunny and hot today with a high near 90 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 54.

  Partly sunny today with a high near 88 and gradually becoming mostly clear overnight with a low near 54.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Monday, July 6, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Monday, July 6, 2026

Mac Watson

Daily Video News

It’s time to take a look at what’s happening around Wyoming for Monday, July 6th.  I’m Mac Watson

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Instead of selling the century-old 140-acre Flat Creek Ranch for millions, a Jackson couple gave the property to its longtime managers. Cowboy State Daily’s Kate Meadows reports owners Joe Albright and Marcia Kunstel say they didn't want it to fall in the hands of someone “who would destroy the land, the wildlife or the buildings.”

“Ray Sharp told me that they are going to keep up with the infrastructure, and that there's always maintenance that needs to be done. This is 100-plus-year-old property, and keeping the cabins in good shape, while still having that sort of historic feel, is kind of a nonstop job. So that's really their focus now, and just continuing to offer bespoke experiences for their visitors, so whatever their visitors want to do when they come and visit, the owners will do their best to curate that experience for them.”

For Albright and Kunstel, both retired foreign correspondents, the decision was about conservation as much as succession. The couple spent 27 years restoring and preserving the ranch after buying it back from the Jackson Hole Land Trust in 1998. 

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Military tanks spent an hour crushing cars Friday as an enthusiastic crowd cheered to celebrate America’s 250th at the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois. Cowboy State Daily’s Renee Jean reports that owner Dan Starks says, “What’s more American than machine guns and tanks crushing cars?”

“It's a huge museum, world-class museum, world's largest private collection of military vehicles in DuBois, of all places. And then, after lunch, right after lunch, when everybody's there at the canteen, anyway, they had some little lectures, told us some, you know, history stories and things like that too. I would say applause, people were applauding, so you know they're happily listening to these lectures after they've watched some tanks crush some cars. It was a great day.”

Starks didn’t get any disagreement from the huge crowds turning out for the daylong event devoted to America. More than 500 people showed up in the first hour, which offered two chances to see the tanks in action. 

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With no veterinary clinics or animal shelters, roaming dogs are a problem on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Cowboy State Daily’s Kerry Drake reports that a Cheyenne clinic 300 miles away has rescued thousands of stray pets from the reservation since 2017.

“The reservation had a huge problem with feral and prairie dogs, so she kind of switched the focus of the foundation, or the program that she runs, and just working, beginning with the reservation, she's kind   of expanded to spay and neuter clinics. Basically, she has captured 3,000 dogs and cats from the reservation since 2017 largely through donations, it's all volunteer.”

JM Marschner, who opened the clinic in 2017, tells Cowboy State Daily she and her volunteers have worked with other rescue groups to find more than 3,000 dogs and cats on the reservation.

The Haitian truck driver who killed one Rawlins EMT and severely injured another in a catastrophic I-80 crash more than three years ago is asking the Wyoming Supreme Court to overturn his convictions. Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that the driver claims prosecutors never proved he was “reckless.”

“Savoie St. Jean's attorney contends that there wasn't enough evidence to convict him of aggravated homicide and aggravated assault and battery. The crash occurred on December 1 of 2022 when Saint Jean's semi truck slammed into an EMT and killed the driver on Interstate-80 near Green River. Last fall. He was sentenced to 12-to-14 years in prison. He's now asking the Wyoming Supreme Court to erase the convictions.”

For the Wyoming Supreme Court, the question is whether the evidence presented to jurors was legally sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Saint Jean acted recklessly. 

I’ll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this.

Cowboy State Daily News continues now….

It’s been 44 years since a young Casper woman was found dead in the North Platte River with a rock tied around her neck. Cowboy State Daily’s Jen Kocher reports the murder has never stopped haunting her older sister Rebecca. 

“She had been 20 years old, and she was found two to six days later dead in the North Platte River, with a rock tied around her neck, and she had been strangled. It has never been solved to date. In fact, there has been no news coverage of it since 1982 that I could find. So it was a case that got kind of lost in the decades, but not for law enforcement. Law enforcement and the investigators are taking it seriously. They said they really want somebody to come forward.”

Belynda May Grantham was a 20-year-old single mother when her partially clothed body was recovered from the bottom of the North Platte River outside of Glenrock, in August 1982. It would take nearly a month and a newspaper sketch before anyone could identify her. Her murder has never been solved.

A Montana rancher who lives more than 100 miles from grizzly territory says a bear mauled her quarter horse. Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz reports that grizzlies aren't deliberately being reintroduced to prairie country. Instead, they’re moving back into those areas on their own.

“She surmises that it probably got attacked by a grizzly bear, and she says that because this is an area where they've been seeing an increasing amount of bears, and also to her knowledge, one of her, I think it's she said one of her neighbors spotted a bear crossing the road toward her ranch just a couple of days prior, so she went ahead and called out, she called out an inspector from the USDA Wildlife Services. He said, ‘There's no bite up on the withers or right on the top of the back of the horse,’ and typically when bears do attack a larger animal, they do try to get up on the back and bite it, and then the bear will use its just its weight and its, overwhelming strength to just pull the animal down that it's trying to kill for prey.”

Danny Kinka, senior wildlife restoration manager for American Prairie, tells Cowboy State Daily there are ways to balance ranchers’ concerns with bear conservation. One effective way is to “put a human presence on the landscape.”

The Wyoming Board of Equalization was set for a July 6 hearing to fight against having to enforce a 4% cap on annual property tax increases, which it calls unconstitutional. But Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports the board has  agreed to honor the cap during its lawsuit challenging it.

“They were set for a July 6 hearing to determine whether the board would have to enforce that cap pretty much against its will and wishes throughout the lawsuit, and while that hearing was on track to unfold, and the judge on track to consider that argument. The board went ahead and agreed. Okay, we'll follow the law until there's a further order of this court, or until the case is over.”

Gov. Mark Gordon, through the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, 

 June 16 in Laramie County District Court, urging the court to make the board follow the law and to declare the law constitutional.

The only way to get to the rest of Wyoming (outside of riding a horse or hiking over the mountain) is a 20-mile drive through Idaho and over Teton Pass. Cowboy State Daily’s Dale Killingbeck reports that residents of remote Alta, Wyoming, say they don't feel disconnected.

“It's a farm country, they grow alfalfa and hay and things like that, there, but all kinds of other people live there. I talked to a man that works in Jackson, and so there's commuters for Jackson that actually drive from there into Jackson. It's about 40 miles to do that, or maybe a little more, but over the past in the winter, they told me that that gentleman told me that doing it in the wintertime now is not as bad as it used to be when he was a kid. It's got all the great beauty without all the people that are on the national park side of things, of the mountains, and they just say, hey, this is all we've ever known. But you get up in the morning, and there's the Grand Tetons.”

The 429-resident community sits in the Teton Valley along the road to Grand Targhee Resort ski area. There are no bumper-to-bumper traffic lines that back up as tourists vie for views of a bison in Grand Teton National Park or the mountain scenes around Jackson Hole.

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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Monday, July 6, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Monday's headlines include:
* Rampant Feral Dogs
* Prairie Grizzlies On The Move
* Jackson Couple Gives Away Ranch

Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Monday, July 6, 2026

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily reporter, Jackie Dorothy.

Jackie Dorothy

Around Wyoming

 overnight in the Wyoming Territory with canvas tents, sectional housing and buildings on wheels. It was July 1868 and the town “bred by the devil” was ready for business.

“There are perhaps, three thousand people in and around Benton,” brothers Legh and Fred Freeman wrote in the Aug. 11, 1868, Frontier Index newspaper. “To give an idea of the on-wheels movement we will mention that the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., torn down at Laramie three days before, had its sectioned shingle roof on, and stage business resumed in it that night.”

The Frontier Index, known as the “Press on Wheels,” was also a 

 business that published its paper in these overnight towns.

“Business was so lively that we telegraphed the Laramie editor of our paper, to wheel on at once to Benton,” the Freeman brothers wrote. “We since learn that our new power press is threshing out the work there.”

Benton was an end-of-track town on the construction front of the Union Pacific Railroad, about 12 miles east of present-day Rawlins and just west of present-day Fort Fred Steele.

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 the worst of these Hell’s Tent Towns, with claims that 100 men had been murdered there in its short lifetime. Their reputation as a home to “bawdy women and swindlers” was earned when visitors passed through and were shocked by what they saw.

According to historians Mary Lou Pence and Lola M. Homsher, co-authors of “The Ghost Towns of Wyoming,” one 

 that portrayed Benton’s devilishness had been a misunderstanding.

Water for this new town was one of its most valuable commodities. It had to be carted by team and tank from the North Platte River two miles away. The water hauler charged an exorbitant 

Seeing a new way to advertise, a whiskey distiller paid the hauler to paste large billboards on each side of his tank that read "Tanglefoot Whisky."

A Mormon woman soon arrived by train and was waiting for a stagecoach for the next leg of her trip to Brigham's Temple. When she saw the poster-plastered wagon and women rushing from their doors with pails in hands, Pence and Homsher said she became  indignant.

 woman said. “They're buying whisky by the bucketsful!"

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To add to Benton’s reputation, even future presidents visited the tent town. Ulyssis S. Grant arrived with Buffalo Bill Cody. The Republican candidate was said to have given a stump speech at Benton to an eclectic group of people, ranging from gentlemen to railroad laborers. 

The Freeman brothers were heavily Democratic and former Confederate soldiers so the story they ran in the Aug.11, 1868, Frontier Index was a satirical attack on Grant and Buffalo Bill.

“When Useless Slaughter Grant was at Benton the other night, Buffalo Bill mounted a dry goods box at a street corner and returned thanks to the people for the splendid ovation (that was not) given the military commander in chief,” they wrote.

The editors claimed Buffalo Bill then auctioned off an old watch to pay for Grant's expenses on his campaign in Wyoming. Otherwise, Grant would be forced to “bum” his way back to Washington, D.C.

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In the same paper, when the Freeman brothers shared the local gossip, usually reserved for such tidbits as who had arrived in town or who was engaging in business, the story was about the latest shootings. This time Brownsville, a construction camp not far from Benton, was the scene of several murders.   

— a criminal offense involving at least two people —

 occurred on the streets between two men employed in Creighton's telegraph outfit, the Freeman brothers reported. 

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“They had been throwing dice for a pistol, when they became dissatisfied, and the person who owned the pistol — James Williams — refused to give up the money received, which led to a difficulty in which he was shot and supposed mortally wounded. The murderer has escaped.

"A man, named John Wood, accidentally shot himself on Sunday morning while drawing his pistol to shoot a man in a gambling house. He is now in the hospital and is doing well.

"Mike Meehan was shot by a ranchman near Reynolds & Dowling's grading camp, about eight miles from Brownsville. 

"The cause of the affair was, the graders were on a strike, and passed an order amongst themselves that any ranchman who would interfere with their strike or sell liquor to drunken men, they would clean out, and after giving them warning, they still sold liquor to the men, when the graders turned out and demolished some fourteen saloons. 

"During the row, Michael Meehan was shot and instantly killed. The ranchman delivered himself up to the military authorities at Fort Steele."

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During its short existence, 200 framed tents and portable buildings had been erected, lots sold to the highest bidder, from $800 to $1,000, and dusty streets laid out. Benton was plotted into five wards and a mayor and one alderman from each ward had been appointed.

might become a more permanent town. A forwarding house was even established to take advantage of the active business taking place.

The most prominent building was described by Pence and Homsher as an immense canvas tent lit by imported chandeliers.

“An immense plate-glass mirror behind the corner bar reflected a strange hubbub of humanity,” Pence and Homsher wrote. “Pistol-packing mamas; lace-gowned and French-heeled dancing damsels; plaid-vested and fob-twisting come-on spielers; campaign-uniformed Indian fighters; corduroyed and buckskinned freighters; bow-tied and velvet-coated dude dandies — all taking chances with fate.”

The historians claimed  more than once during his night shift an overworked barkeep would have to change into another clean white coat to be rid of spatters of beer, bullets or blood.

By September 1868, the railroad had moved on, and so did nearly everyone else. 

The depot was moved east three miles to Fort Steele and Rawlins was designated a rail terminal. Pence and Homsher said that as tents were erected in the new town of Rawlins, former Benton residents were hesitant to buy lots and be fooled again into spending money on real estate that would not last.

Benton only existed for three months before the town was dismantled and it became one of Wyoming’s most infamous ghost towns.

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<title>Wyoming History: 100 Murders In 3 Months, Lawless Benton Was ‘Bred By The Devil’ | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Of the Wyoming Territory towns that arrived on wheels along the Union Pacific Railroad, none were as tawdry, bawdry and lawless as Benton, which witnessed as many as 100 murders in its three-month lifespan. Benton, it was said, was "bred by the devil."

Wyoming History: 100 Murders In 3 Months, Lawless Benton Was ‘Bred By The Devil’

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Kolby Fedore

Crime & Courts

CASPER — Thirteen years ago, James Pulver sat in a jail cell wondering whether his life was over.

At 24, he was facing federal kidnapping and domestic violence-related charges and staring at a $100,000 cash bond — an amount so far beyond his reach it may as well have been $1 million.

He remembers the clang of the steel doors, the uncertainty, and the crushing realization that he had no idea what happened next.

"You don't know anything," Pulver recalls "You don't know the process. You don't know the courts. You don't know what's coming."

Eventually, Pulver accepted a plea agreement, pleading no contest to misdemeanor domestic violence and misdemeanor theft after spending 367 days in the Fremont County Detention Center.

He still insists the most serious allegations against him weren't true, but says the experience permanently changed how he views people accused of crimes.

Today, when someone in Wyoming is arrested and their family doesn't know where to turn, there's a decent chance the phone rings on Pulver's desk.

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Most people picture a bail bondsman as someone who signs paperwork, takes a fee and disappears.

Pulver, who lives in Casper, laughs at that; he said he believes his job is to guide defendants through one of the most frightening experiences of their lives.

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His advice starts immediately. He tells his bondees: eat well, get sunlight, and stay sober. 

"You're already walking in there in shackles looking guilty," he said. "They're literally judging you."

Know your lawyer's phone number. Know your address before standing in front of a judge.

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Pulver tells clients they have an advantage once they're released on bond: they can prepare.

[{"type":"text","text":"Someone sitting in jail cannot."}]

"If you're out," he said, "you can do all these things that make you look better."

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[{"type":"text","text":"Pulver's work exists because of one uniquely American business model."}]

When a judge sets bail, defendants who can't afford to post the full amount often hire a commercial bail bondsman.

Typically, the defendant pays a nonrefundable premium — about 10% of the total bond — while the bondsman guarantees the full amount to the court.

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If the defendant disappears and fails to appear in court, the bondsman is on the hook for the entire bond.

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Pulver says the collateral often tells a bigger story than the crime itself. When parents, spouses or siblings are willing to put their own home on the line, he sees more than financial security—he sees a support system.

Some defendants, he said, don't have that luxury. Years of addiction, broken promises or repeated arrests have left them with no one left to call. That's often when he knows the odds of success are much lower.

"The family is what they need," Pulver said. "That's who's going to help them the most."

It's also why he bristles when people assume bounty hunters spend their days chasing criminals for fun.

"My job isn't to catch bad guys," he said. "My job is to get them to court."

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[{"type":"text","text":"Pulver's first fugitive recovery began with a 16-hour drive to Texas."}]

A veteran bounty hunter named Craig Zibell had offered to teach him the business. Their first assignment was to find a Wyoming fugitive accused of stealing his father's pickup, driving it to Denver and boarding a plane south.

[{"type":"text","text":"Pulver had never tracked anyone previously."}]

By the time they reached Texas, he'd pieced together the man's whereabouts through Facebook posts and other online clues. The trail led them to an apartment complex.

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For nearly three days, the pair sat in a truck watching a single apartment door.

[{"type":"text","text":"\"You don't move,\" Pulver said. \"You just sit there and stare.\""}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Food stayed in the cab. Bathroom breaks were carefully timed."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Hours slipped into days."}]

Pulver learned then and there that being a bounty hunter requires a lot of patience. 

[{"type":"text","text":"The stakeout eventually paid off."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"The fugitive walked outside and the arrest happened without much drama."}]

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[{"type":"text","text":"Not every recovery ends quietly."}]

One fugitive had been repeatedly contacting a woman against orders.

Pulver and another recovery agent borrowed a vehicle and positioned themselves nearby, hoping the man would appear.

[{"type":"text","text":"Pulver sprinted toward him."}]

Instead of surrendering, the man — whom Pulver estimates weighed around 280 pounds — turned and threw a punch.

Within seconds, the two men were tumbling down a steep hillside in the dark.

"I grabbed him by the collar," Pulver recalled. "I made sure I landed 

[{"type":"text","text":"They rolled to the bottom still fighting."}]

Pulver eventually gained control long enough for his partner to help secure the arrest.

[{"type":"text","text":"The bruises lingered for weeks."}]

He still keeps photographs on his phone showing the deep purple marks stretching across his back.

[{"type":"text","text":"His wife later said, \"James, you've got to do things smarter.\" "}]

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[{"type":"text","text":"\"No bond is worth someone getting killed” Pulver says. "}]

[{"type":"text","text":"The most dangerous recovery he remembers wasn't one he finished himself."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"It started with a runner who crossed state lines into rural Utah."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Pulver followed leads until local authorities became involved."}]

A Casper bail bondsman has an unorthodox job that requires him to be part bounty hunter and part life counselor. And he can empathize with his clients. "Before I was a bail bondsman, I was an inmate," he said.

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