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Daily Cartoon 2: Friday, September 26, 2025

Kerry Drake

Around Wyoming

Toa, a puppy on the Wind River Indian Reservation, didn’t have a name yet when he was recently rescued by a family in Ethete, which found him with a fishing line tied to his right front leg.

Some children were reportedly seen swinging him around by the line, severely injuring the leg. But thanks to the family that found Toa, his leg was not only eventually amputated he also helped find the 14 brothers, sisters and cousins from whom he had strayed.

It was a dramatic rescue, but one of many made possible by Yola’s Pet Rescue in Cheyenne, which focuses on getting stray and feral dogs wandering the reservation spayed and neutered, then finding people who will adopt them.

JM Marschner, who opened the clinic in 2017, told 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.

Marschner said she started working there because there are so many stray and feral dogs, and the reservation doesn’t have a veterinarian or animal shelter. The closest vets are in Lander and Riverton.

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When Toa was found, a call went to Yola’s Pet Rescue late on a Saturday night. Marschner dispatched one of her volunteers to the scene to meet the woman who rescued Toa, and together they discovered 18 other puppies from two litters. 

Four later died, and Marschner said while “it was touch and go” for the three smallest pups, 14 survived and were sent to the Laramie Animal Welfare Society.

Toa didn’t make that trip because a veterinarian had to perform an emergency amputation. After some recovery time, he joined the rest of his puppy pals in Laramie. 

That’s where he got his name, plus much love and attention from the staff and volunteers.

Corina Slyman of LAWS said dogs brought to the clinic can’t be adopted until they’ve been spayed or neutered, had their vaccinations, and been microchipped. LAWS works to arrange for foster homes, but doesn’t have enough space to keep rescued dogs.

“We mainly take care of puppies who come in, and many need to be bottle-fed and have special care,” Slyman said. “We work with other animal clinics in the region to get them adopted once they can be.”

Slyman said Toa looks is a strong candidate for adoption. 

“The tough little guy is doing really well,” she said. 

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The Wind River Indian Reservation, like many others in North America, has had a large dog population for generations. Many of these “rez dogs” run loose, with no owners.

Without a clinic like Yola’s, the numbers won’t decrease. Even with the clinic and animal lovers like Marschner and a half-dozen volunteers, it’s a constant and expensive challenge.

“A lot of the houses on the reservation don’t have fences, so the dogs aren’t contained,” Marschner said. “So that’s part of the problem. If we find a dog we think may be lost, we post them on Pet Finder.”

Another huge factor is unwanted animals being abandoned, though Marschner is quick to note that people in Riverton and Lander turn their dogs loose on the reservation, too. 

“It’s not just a tribal problem,” she said.

Kisandra Roberts of Kinnear has been a Yola’s volunteer for about four years, after leaving a Lander animal hospital where she’d worked for 14 years. 

Roberts said often people don’t own the animals in their neighborhood, but they feel badly and want to help if dogs have puppies under their porch or in their sheds.

 "Before they know it, people can have 10 or 20 dogs,” she said. “And each female can have about 20 puppies a year. Kids will bring home a puppy and say they want to keep it when it’s young and cute. But when they’re no longer in the puppy stage, they’ll just kind of leave it to fend for itself.”

Roberts, who owns a rescued rez dog, said abandoned dogs “pack up” because they instinctively want to be with other like-minded dogs. She said a lot of feral dogs “absolutely won’t let us come anywhere near them.” 

Marschner said it’s a never-ending battle. 

“Mothers tend to have big litters, then they continue to have puppies,” she said. “It’s hard to find and catch many of these dogs so we can take them to a clinic and have them fixed.”

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Marschner’s rescue organization has a mobile unit dubbed the “Spay & Neuter Cruiser” for clinics, but she said it’s usually more efficient to find a place in the community they’re serving.

Yola’s next mobile clinic is set for the Casper Health Fair on July 11-12. Spay and neuter clinics will also be conducted in Wheatland and also on the reservation later this month.

“Once we made the announcement in Casper, we were sold out in about an hour,” Marschner said. “That shows what the need is. We have a waiting list, but I don’t think we’ll be able to accommodate them.

“We set up like a ‘M*A*S*H*’ unit, with all of the medical supplies and equipment,” she explained. 

The equipment alone cost about $40,000, and Marschner said each clinic costs between $4,000 to $5,000.

The group largely depends on donations from individuals and grants from groups or companies. Marschner said she does her work for free.

“The critical piece to running the clinics is finding a vet and a vet tech,” she said. “That’s our biggest challenge. I think we’ll see more vets willing to participate.”

All spay and neuter operations on the reservation are free. In other places Yola’s helps subsidize the cost and negotiates a lower fee with veterinarians who agree to do the work so it’s more affordable for dog owners.

Yola’s makes monthly trips to the reservation to deliver dog food, and has also brought dog houses with straw for outdoor pets.

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The clinic has an annual budget between $60,000 and $70,000, Marschner said. The majority is spent on veterinary services, and the remainder is mostly used for dog food and spay and neuter clinic supplies.

“The money can go quickly,” she added. Toa’s amputation cost $900. If a rez dog has an encounter with a porcupine, which happens frequently, the medical bill can top $1,000.

“A lot of dogs will follow the river, and the super curious ones will go after the porcupines,” Roberts said. 

The subsequent fights never go well for the canines. Vets must anesthetize the dogs to remove quills, a process that can take hours and might need to be done multiple times.

“People can’t afford to take them to the vet, and if they don’t get care, they starve to death because they can’t eat,” Marschner said. “We always want to help with emergency care, like Toa’s amputation, but it does add up.”

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Roberts said many people want to adopt rez dogs and are willing to drive several hundred miles to do so, for several reasons.

“I transported three the other day clear down to Utah,” she said. “They get adopted pretty quick. People feel bad about what they’ve been through.”

But the dogs’ tough lives seeking food and shelter are part of what makes people satisfied when they adopt one. 

“They are very resilient,” Roberts said. “They’ve gone through so much, and just evolved over time to be able to withstand extreme heat, extreme cold. Things like rattlesnake bites don’t seem to phase them that much.”

She said her niece had a rez dog that ate about 10 pounds of chocolate, which is usually lethal to dogs.

“Her dog got into a platter of chocolate, ate it and was fine,” Roberts recalled. “That’s so crazy and unheard of. But these dogs build up a tolerance that most of your purebreds aren’t going to have. Reservation dogs have a tendency to outlive them, too.”

The dogs Marschner and her volunteers find on the reservation are mixed breeds. 

“We typically see Australian shepherd cattle dogs, mixed with a little Husky, German shepherd; that’s probably the most common mix,” she said. “Probably some pit too. They’re smart dogs.”

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Marschner said the work takes an emotional toll on her and the other volunteers. 

“It’s hard, no one wants to say no to puppies, or euthanize puppies, but there are just a lot of them all over,” she said. "There are days, especially when you see the starving dogs and animals we try to save. That happens a lot. We had a Bullmastiff, starved and skin and bones. She weighed 52 pounds, and now she’s up to 120.”

Marschner said a dog named Willow also “touched a lot of hearts.” She weighed 22 pounds, about half normal weight. Willow had mange, so no fur or hair.

“It took us two to three weeks to find her after the initial sighting,” she said, adding that she's healthy now after being adopted by a Cheyenne Realtor.

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Marschner had been a volunteer at her local animal shelter for 25 years, but her personal mission to help rescue dogs began in 2017, when she met the clinic’s namesake, a 5-year-old beagle-shepherd mix named Yola.

Military veteran John White was Yola’s owner. He adopted the once-stray dog from a Wyoming shelter, but when White was diagnosed with terminal cancer he needed a new caretaker for his pet.

“He posted on Craigslist a plea for a home for his dog written in (Yula’s) voice,” Marschner said.

The post went viral, leading to more than 1,000 people applying to take Yola. Like the others, Marschner wrote a brief essay, and White chose her to be Yola’s new owner. 

When Marschner picked up her new dog, White was too sick to see her. One of his friends asked her if she’d also consider giving White’s other dog, a bulldog-boxer mix named Boogy, a new home.

“How could I possibly say no?” Marschner said, so the pair came to live with her. They had many happy years together before Yola died from cancer. Boogy, who later lived with Marschner’s mother, died two years ago.

Yola lives on through the rescue clinic that bears her name. For puppies like Toa and others that desperately need help, Marschner said the clinic will continue its work to see that “no unwanted puppy is left behind.”

Kerry Drake can be reached at Kerry@CowboyStateDaily.com

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<title>Cheyenne Clinic 300 Miles Away Has Rescued 3,000 Wyoming Roaming Reservation Dogs | Cowboy State Daily</title>

With no veterinary clinics or animal shelters, roaming dogs are a problem on the Wind River Indian Reservation. A Cheyenne clinic 300 miles away has rescued 3,000 stray pets from the reservation since 2017.

Cheyenne Clinic 300 Miles Away Has Rescued 3,000 Wyoming Roaming Reservation Dogs

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Kate Meadows

Business & Tourism

Business

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It was December 2025, and the owners of the historic Flat Creek Ranch northeast of Jackson, Joe Albright and Marcia Kunstel, were calling with an unexpected question.

Would Trey and his wife, Shelby, like to own the ranch they had managed for more than two decades?

Albright and Kunstel, longtime journalists whose careers were built on documenting history, weren’t offering to sell the ranch.

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“It was truly an amazing birthday phone call,” Shelby Scharp told Cowboy State Daily.

Seven months later, the Scharps are settling into their first season not just as managers but as owners of a 140-acre guest ranch tucked beneath the iconic Sleeping Indian in the Gros Ventre Mountains. 

In a valley where ranches routinely sell for tens of millions of dollars and development pressure never lets up, Albright and Kunstel chose a different path.

"We didn't want it to fall in the hands of someone who would destroy the land, the wildlife or the buildings," Kunstel told Cowboy State Daily. "It deserves to be maintained."

The couple explained their motivation in a newspaper advertisement announcing the transfer: “Why are we doing all this? To keep our 103-year-old Ranch from falling into the wake of Jackson’s rush to develop mega-mansions and hulking hotels.”

As part of the gift, the Scharps agreed not to sell the ranch for at least 10 years and pledged to preserve its historic cabins, off-grid infrastructure and operation as a guest ranch.

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For Albright and Kunstel, both retired foreign correspondents, the decision was about conservation as much as succession.

"We felt that giving this land to people with the talents and background that Trey and Shelby have was the best way to keep this ranch going for another 100 years," Albright told Cowboy State Daily.

The couple spent 27 years restoring and preserving the ranch after buying it back from the Jackson Hole Land Trust in 1998. By then, many of the 1920s-era cabins had fallen into disrepair.

An extensive restoration project returned the historic buildings to life while modernizing the ranch behind the scenes. Today it operates entirely off solar power with a custom-designed water system. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 and reopened as a guest ranch that same year.

Its history stretches back even further. A timeline on the ranch’s website is full of gems – characters and moments that have cemented the ranch’s place in time.

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In the summer of 1900, cowboy Enoch “Cal” Carrington camped on the land for a few days while working as a cook on a hunting expedition. Carrington returned the following summer, staked his claim and built a small cabin.

In 1917, Cal met Eleanor “Cissy” Patterson – Albright’s great aunt – at the Bar BC Ranch, where Patterson was staying as a guest. Carrington was the head hunting guide.

Carrington obtained a patent for a homestead in 1922 and sold the property to Patterson a year later, for $5,000. Patterson was an heiress to the Chicago Tribune.

Later, her niece and Albright’s mother, Josephine Patteron, would own the property.

In 1928, Cissy Patterson hired a man named Farney Cole to be caretaker. Cole famously beat a black bear to death with a waterlogged aspen limb in 1944. He had been using the limb to break up a beaver dam on the property when the bear, which had two cubs with her, attacked him.

Cissy longed to host Saturday night dances in the lodge at the ranch, and she made that dream come true in 1929, when she had a grand piano shipped to the ranch from Chicago. The instrument was hauled up the primitive bumpy road on an ox cart. It is still in use today.

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For a few weeks, Flat Creek Ranch was party to a thriving gambling scene in Jackson in the 1950s, As gambling raids swept through Jackson, hotel staff drove their guests out to the ranch, where a casino room was set up.

In 1986, Josephine Albright donated Flat Creek Ranch to the Jackson Hole Land Trust to guarantee the land’s permanent protection. She ensured that her heirs would have the first option to buy back the ranch at an appraised price upon her death.

Albright and Kunstel had not intended to buy the ranch in 1998, but they fell in love with Jackson and were ready to retire from longtime journalism careers.

The 1920s-era cabins remained on the land but were in desperate need of maintenance and restoration.

Contractor Porgy McClelland headed an ambitious restoration project that lasted four years. Cabins were moved and some were taken apart and put back on new foundations.

During the process, McClelland found old newspapers stuffed between logs for chinking.

, “He opened up one and found a box score for a baseball game in which Babe Ruth hit two home runs. It disintegrated into dust before he could share it too widely.” -

When the ranch was turning 100, Shelby suggested Albright and Kunstel write a book chronicling the history of the ranch.

“They jumped in with both feet and did this incredible coffee table book,” Shelby said.

 during the writing of the book, Flat Creek Ranch: Cissy and Cal Launch a Rip-Roaring Jackson Hole Saga. Newspapers on the platform date to 1911 for the city of Jackson. They also searched land records that told traces of stories.

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The Scharps’ connection to Albright and Kunstel happened unexpectedly, in the early 2000s. The Scharps were managing a fly fishing lodge in Patagonia, Chile, when guests Joan and Huntley Baldwin mentioned friends in Jackson who were looking for ranch managers.

When Trey heard the name "Flat Creek Ranch," he wasn't immediately interested.

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He told his wife, “I don’t think we can make a go out of it with an old ranch that is falling apart.”

The Scharps used the satellite internet they were only supposed to use to email their boss in Santiago to do a Google search of Flat Creek Ranch.

“The page loaded so slowly,” Shelby said. “The first five minutes were just pictures of a blue sky.”

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Later, the Scharps would walk to a phone booth in the middle of nowhere, at a crossroads in rural Chile where busses sometimes stopped. Chickens pecked at their feet as they picked up the phone and called Albright and Kunstel.

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Within their almost 23-year-stint of the ranch’s bigger story, Trey said he can’t think of one memory that trumps all the others; there are too many.

“But there was that bald eagle,” he said. “We watched it take a Canada goose out of the lake.”

Learning that Kunstel and Albright wanted to give them the ranch was a total shock, Shelby told Cowboy State Daily.

During that December phone call, Shelby was nervous at the outset. She said she immediately wondered how she and her husband could afford to take on such an astounding piece of Teton County.

“And then I looked over at Trey and saw how grateful he was and thought, 'I need to be more like that',” she said.

The Scharps have agreed to own and preserve the ranch for the next 10 years. Its future is open-ended after that. They could decide to hold onto it, sell it or transfer it to a younger generation of the Albright family.

“We understood what Joe and Marcia wanted their guests to feel while they’re here,” Shelby said. “We never diverged from that.”

Now that the ranch is entirely in their hands, Trey said they will continue to improve the infrastructure, to keep the 100-plus-year-old cabins looking as good as they did in 2004, when he and Shebly saw the property together for the first time.

Being owners and managers is “the epitome of ‘same same but different',” Shelby said.

The daily grind hasn’t changed. But now, when she walks across a beloved bridge on the property in the early mornings, the reality sinks in: “It’s quiet and it’s like, ‘Oh, this is ours',” Shelby said.

“We’re not luxury. We’re authentic,” Trey said. “It’s authenticity here.”

He added that in the gift is a powerful message about land stewardship: “Not everything is for sale.”

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<title>Jackson Couple Gives Historic Flat Creek Ranch To Longtime Caretakers To Save It | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Instead of selling the century-old 140-acre Flat Creek Ranch for millions, a Jackson couple gave the property to its longtime managers. "We didn't want it to fall in the hands of someone who would destroy the land, the wildlife or the buildings," they said.

Jackson Couple Gives Historic Flat Creek Ranch To Longtime Caretakers To Save It

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Renée Jean

Outdoors

Public Lands

A small team of volunteers will shoulder heavy packs and follow a string of pack mules into bear country this summer on a narrow trail that leads deep into Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest. 

Their destination isn’t a scenic vista or a famous fishing hole. It's a weathered lodge built in 1890 that is slowly but surely falling apart. 

It was built on a steep hillside in the nation’s first federally protected forest by one Abraham Archibald Anderson.

The rugged mountain artist studio turned ranch house is where Anderson would begin a fight to save the wilderness from burning down around him.

That fight would take him to the nation’s Capitol and reshape America’s emerging national forest system, even as it laid a foundation for Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

HistoriCorps Regional Program Manager Michael Guillot is 

 to save Anderson’s 136-year-old historic cabin.

“He saw a lot of what was happening with unregulated forestry in the area and some of the development that he felt was accelerating without the right kind of guardrails,” Guillot told Cowboy State Daily about the impact of Anderson on public lands policy. “So, he became a big supporter and advocate for clarifying the role of our forest reserve. He’s considered one of the first.”

Anderson’s headquarters for the effort was the Palette Ranch cabin he built in 1890 to serve as his art studio in what is today known as the Shoshone National Forest, which was also the nation’s “first forest.”

That makes the cabin integral to the birth of America's conservation movement.

“These structures should be saved,” Guillot said. “But they are hard to do. They’re hard to get to, and they’re hard to coordinate. But we are uniquely positioned as an organization to take on these kinds of projects.”

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Anderson didn’t come to Wyoming to begin a conservation movement — at all. 

He was born into a wealthy family in New Jersey in 1847, which allowed him to pursue his two main passions in life, hunting and painting. 

He discovered the territory that would become Wyoming on an 1883 hunting trip in between Paris and New York excursions, and he was struck by the spectacular hunting and the equally spectacular scenery. 

That prompted Anderson to buy a residence at the head of a valley near the Greybull River, a place he called Palette Ranch No. 1, as well as two additional ranches at lower elevations that he called Palette No. 2 and Palette No. 3. 

He built his mountain artist studio — the Anderson Lodge that HistoriCorps is working to save — in 1890, about 6 miles west of his main ranch headquarters.

One summer, he even brought along two female models for nude portraiture to this just-finished, rustic mountain retreat. 

That prompted local cowhands to name one of the adjoining creeks “Warhouse,” a polite version of what they thought was really going on in Anderson’s studio.

Warhouse Creek and Warhouse Trail still remain as colorful reminders of this history.

Anderson made many trips into the adjacent mountains for ranching, hunting, and painting. 

Through that, he witnessed the devastation that was being caused by unsupervised grazing and unregulated hunting and tourism. 

Forage was being deliberately destroyed and timber stands burned in clear-cut fashion to make herding easier, as well as develop new forage fields. 

The fires were destroying watersheds, as well as threatening his home and his ranch. 

That prompted Anderson to join national efforts advocating for real conservation of the resources in Yellowstone. He took a map to President Theodore Roosevelt to advocate that a new boundary be set for the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, as well as plead for better enforcement of existing rules.

Not long after that in 1902, Roosevelt not only enlarged and renamed the area the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, he also appointed Anderson as its special superintendent. 

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He immediately started surveying the 13,000-mile reserve boundary, accomplishing the work with a small crew in three months’ time. He created new districts with new supervisors whose mission was to tackle the problems caused by unregulated grazing as well as other issues. 

Anderson continued in his role until 1905, and served for a time as the game warden of Wyoming as well. 

He was among the first in the nation to manage public rangelands and timberlands. 

To assist the state in managing its big game herds, he established game refuges throughout the reserves — a legacy that lives on to this day.

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The work to save Anderson’s cabin will be grueling, Guillot said, and the logistics involved are complex, starting with just getting volunteers, tools, and materials to the site. 

Because it is a federally designated wilderness area, no mechanized tools or equipment are allowed. That means no chainsaws, nail guns, or anything like that.

The wilderness designation also means every hand tool and all materials must be carried in and out by human hands or pack mule for the entire 7.5-mile trail from the Jack Creek trailhead.  

This includes food and tents to sleep in, as well as all 3,000 pounds of materials and tools for the stabilization project itself. 

Once volunteers hike in, they’ll work five days straight at elevation in true bear country, filtering all their water from local sources and packing out every scrap of food and trash they bring in.

The remoteness of the location means forethought is a requirement of the job. There’s no running to Lowe’s if something was forgotten, and there are no easy exits for bad weather. 

Because of the difficulty of this project, HistoriCorps has capped the number of volunteers to no more than eight for safety’s sake. That means more work for fewer hands to jack up and crib the century-old cabin that was built onto a sliding hillside.

Because of the project’s many challenges, HistoriCorps’ Anderson Lodge project has earned its own designation. 

It’s known as a “HardCorps” project, meaning only volunteers who have high levels of skill in both carpentry and the wilderness should apply.

For volunteers like Leisa Grant, it’s the difficulty that is the draw. 

She’s part of a growing segment of travelers no longer content with just leaving no trace. They want to see the world and make a difference while doing it.

“I love the idea of being part of a small group of people who are dedicated to preserving history,” she told Cowboy State Daily. “We see a lot of places around that are long gone. And it’s neat to see in some ways, it’s like a skeleton where something died. But it’s never coming back.”

Grant has both wilderness and carpentry skills, which is what brought her to HistoriCorps first as a volunteer and now as an employee. Being able to use both skills to see the country and save history has been uniquely satisfying, she said.

“You’re working on stuff where you’re trying to emulate and make that structure exactly like it was when the first people put it up,” she said. “And I think our volunteers are absolutely in love with that idea. We have a strong core of regular volunteers who have become friends over time.

“It’s a special experience, whether you’re a volunteer or a field staff member, which is why I like to do both.”

The areas she’s gotten to see and explore are also places she would never have even known about but for HistoriCorps.

“They are beautiful, breathtaking, raw places,” she said. “Almost always on public lands like BLM and Forest Service. It’s just a neat opportunity to go somewhere that you never even knew existed.”

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<title>Inside The Mission To Save 136-Year-Old Anderson Lodge In Wyoming Bear Country | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Saving the 136-year-old Anderson Lodge deep in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest is not easy. As it's a wilderness area, no mechanized tools or equipment are allowed and everything must be carried in. There's no running to Lowe’s if something is forgotten

Inside The Mission To Save 136-Year-Old Anderson Lodge In Wyoming Bear Country

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Dale Killingbeck

Even without the Bright Spot country store and lounge, Hiland, Wyoming, isn't a ghost town — just ask the 10 people still living there in the middle of nowhere between Casper and Shoshoni. In fact, the woman who inherited the store hopes to reopen it.

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