Candy Moulton
Candy Moulton has written 17 Western history books; co-edited a collection of short fiction and a two-volume encyclopedia; and written and produced several documentary films. She has four Spur Awards, plus many other awards from historical societies, museum associations, and press associations.
During her career of more than 50 years she has edited a weekly newspaper, two magazines, and is a past executive director of Western Writers of America.
Her passions are history, travel, and writing…all of which will be subjects for future articles for Cowboy State Daily
Candy's roots are deep in the Encampment area where she was reared on a ranch. She still lives in that same neighborhood with her husband Steve.
Latest from Candy Moulton
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Joseph Rex Wardell Ran Cattle For 53 Years
Joseph Rex Wardell was the seventh of nine children and earned his first saddle working as a horse wrangler at age 9. He spent 53 in the saddle for the Upper Green River Cattle Association.
Candy MoultonFebruary 17, 2024
Candy Moulton: Exploring The Sub-Arctic Tundra With 700 Polar Bears
Our guide told us the polar bears were opening their mouths wide because that is how they smell. Their eyesight isn’t great, but they can smell a seal through feet of pack ice … or the aroma of a couple of Wyoming tourists standing on the back platform of the tundra buggy.
Candy MoultonDecember 23, 2023
Sand Creek Massacre: The Most Dastardly Episode In American History Of Broken Promises
The Sand Creek massacre, which happened Nov. 29, 1864, was "really the most dastardly episode in American history of broken promises, followed by a massacre,” Indian Wars historian John Monnett told Cowboy State Daily.
Candy MoultonNovember 29, 2023
Wyoming History: Yellowstone’s Place In The Last Stand Of The Nez Perce Almost Lost To History
As the Nez Perce Tribe was making its way to a U.S. government-established reservation, they moved through Yellowstone as they made their last stand as a free people.
Candy MoultonNovember 25, 2023
Wyoming History: Sacajawea, A Culture Broker For America
For a long period of time there is no record of where Sacajawea was, but eventually, she made her way to Fort Lupton on the South Platte River and then continued north to join Chief Washakie’s people in Wyoming, where she lived the remainder of her life.
Candy MoultonNovember 12, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Frank E. Miller Rode The Range In Carbon County
Frank Miller began riding for his father in 1924 when he was five years old. He only rode for one brand in his life, the I Lazy D, and in 55 years he rode a lot of horses to move cattle and sheep all across the 160,000 acres of ranch northeast of Rawlins.
Candy MoultonNovember 11, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall Of Fame: Kent Snidecor’s Not A Rancher, He’s A Cowboy
Kent Snidecor of Cora, Wyoming, earned his spurs as a working cowboy the honest way, as a self-described “half-assed bronc rider” who “always felt better about myself when I was horseback.”
Candy MoultonNovember 05, 2023
The 1878 Double Murder Of Wyoming Lawmen Robert Widdowfield And Tip Vincent
The 1878 killing of Robert Widdowfield and Tip Vincent was the first double killing of lawmen in Wyoming territory and set Carbon County on a path that is unmatched in terms of grisly crimes and their aftermath.
Candy MoultonOctober 14, 2023
Wyoming People: Driskill Family Roots Run From The Cattle Trail To Devils Tower
The Driskill family started raising cattle in Texas 166 years ago, which led them to the Devils Tower region, where they’ve been punching cows since before Wyoming was a state.
Candy MoultonOctober 07, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Veteran Legacy & New Exhibit At Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum
Church Hill Firnekas of Buffalo enlisted in the army in 1917 and took 10,000 horses and mules to France. The sea was rough and they couldn’t land. But in true Wyoming cowboy style, Church jumped on a mule and rode him overboard. The horses and other mules followed and they all made it to the shore.
Candy MoultonSeptember 15, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Mickey and Bill Thoman, a Cowboy Couple
Mary A. “Mickey” Thoman rode into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame five years ago and on Saturday her late husband William “Bill” Thoman will join her in the elite group of women and men recognized in the Cowboy State for their cowboy work.
Candy MoultonSeptember 12, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: A Hamilton Cowboy Legacy
Wyoming was not even a territory in 1857 when 29-year-old Richard Henry Hamilton came west from Missouri to settle at Fort Bridger. He and his son, Charles Beal Hamilton, represent a four-generation cowboy legacy with their 2023 induction into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Candy MoultonAugust 31, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Mary Flitner – My Ranch, Too
Mary Budd Flitner was the second of three daughters and her father expected them to “do a day’s work” on the ranch. They learned how to “read” and “finesse” cattle by understanding behavior and anticipating what cattle might do next.
Candy MoultonAugust 27, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Marion Scott, Campbell County Cowboy
In 1949, the Scott Ranch had no equipment to move the record-breaking snow, so horses provided the power for all the work. At 17-years-old, Marion loaded 400-500 pounds of cake on two pack horses and rode seven miles through the deep snow to feed their cows. He did this every day for weeks.
Candy MoultonAugust 19, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Pat Dew
In 1913, when he was 21, William Patrick "Pat" Dew drove a wagon from Nebraska to Pinedale where he soon found a cowboy job in Big Piney country, spending most of his time on the round-up and on the range. Dew will be inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame in September.
Candy MoultonAugust 15, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Marie Jordan Bell -- Iron Mountain Cowgirl Who Earned Her Spurs
The passion that Marie had to be horseback and actively involved in working with cattle was evident when her horse jumped an icy creek and fell on her when she was in her late 70s. Doctors said she would never ride again. She proved them wrong.
Candy MoultonAugust 08, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Bill Francis, Cowboying in Jackson Hole
After serving on the front line in Europe during World War I, earning sharpshooter status, Bill Francis returned home to Jackson Hole and was horseback nearly every day, working cattle, breaking and training horses, and maintaining his cowboy lifestyle working right beside his wife. He was inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2021.
Candy MoultonAugust 01, 2023
A Southern Wyoming Rendezvous: A Serving of Homemade Ice Cream and History
Trapping, trading and black powder were buzzing again in the Grand Encampment area of southern Wyoming for living history day. Visitors get to tour a tie hack cabin, one-room schoolhouse, stage station, a livery filled with wagons, and even a two-story outhouse.
Candy MoultonJuly 29, 2023
34-Years Ago Sunday, Lane Frost Died At Cheyenne Frontier Days, Cowboys Remember
It’s been 34 years since Lane Frost’s last bull ride at Cheyenne Frontier Days on July 30, 1989. This week, bull riders in Cheyenne remembered Frost and what he means to the sport.
Candy MoultonJuly 29, 2023
Time to Celebrate: Cheyenne Frontier Days & The National Day of the Cowboy
As cowboys and visitors arrive in Cheyenne for Frontier Days, they are following in the long traditions of the western celebration. Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame inductees have saddled up to ride in Cheyenne for decades. And today we recognize the traditions for National Day of the Cowboy.
Candy MoultonJuly 22, 2023
Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Stepp Family Forges Way For Black Cowboys
Alonzo Theodore “Lon” Stepp, born in 1874 in Berea, Kentucky, to formerly enslaved father Archie Stepp and Anne Blythe Stepp, never set out to be a cowboy, but he came to Wyoming to spend a summer on a ranch in the Fontenelle area and forged a new destiny.
Candy MoultonJuly 18, 2023