Jackie Dorothy
Jackie Dorothy is a reporter for Cowboy State Daily based in central Wyoming.
Over the past 20 years, Jackie has worked in television, radio and print across Wyoming. In this role, she has won numerous writing and history awards including the Wyoming Governor’s Journalist of the Year and SBA Journalist of the Year.
Jackie is also the podcast host of ‘Pioneers of Outlaw Country’ that explores little known historical stories of Wyoming with entertaining narrative.
Latest from Jackie Dorothy
Wyoming Sheep Industry Cheers As Denver Voters Kill Slaughterhouse Ban
Denver voters killed an ordinance Tuesday that would have shuttered a large slaughterhouse that processed 20% of America’s lamb, and more than 50% of Wyoming's. Cowboy State ranchers are cheering the proposal’s defeat.
Jackie DorothyNovember 06, 2024
House District 47: Bob Davis, R, Keeps His Sweetwater County Seat
In District 47, Robert Davis, Republican incumbent, beat Democratic challenger James Wilson on Tuesday to continue serving in Wyoming’s House of Representatives.
Jackie DorothyNovember 06, 2024
House District 28: Winter, R, Wins Another Term in Wyoming House
Wyoming House District 28 went to incumbent Republican John Winter, who handily beat Democratic challenger Larry Alwin on Tuesday.
Jackie DorothyNovember 06, 2024
Wyoming Navajo Dressmaker’s Work Has Been In Movies, Powwows And Carnegie Hall
Navajo dressmaker Candace Toledo of Arapahoe, Wyoming, has found inspiration through creating traditional and modern Native American fashion. Her one-of-a-kind creations have been featured in a Disney movie, at powwows and at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Jackie DorothyNovember 03, 2024
Find The Sheriff In Niobrara County -- A ‘Where’s Waldo’ Activity To Connect With Residents
In Niobrara County, locals are invited to guess where local deputies are every Friday. The department posts a photo of a Sheriff’s Office vehicle somewhere in the rural county and people somehow figure out where the deputy is.
Jackie DorothyNovember 03, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: Gillette Avenue May Be The Most Haunted Street In Wyoming
There are those who insist the ghosts come out after dark in downtown Gillette. From First to Second streets, “The entire first block of Gillette Avenue is haunted."
Jackie DorothyOctober 30, 2024
Like A True Woming Cowboy, 10-Year-Old Plans To Trick-Or-Treat On Horseback
When 10-year-old Levi Logan chose his Halloween costume, he wanted one that included his best friend — his horse, Snip. So Levi and Snip will trick-or-treat around Thermopolis, Wyoming, as the Headless Horseman.
Jackie DorothyOctober 30, 2024
Proposed Slaughterhouse Ban Could Devastate Wyoming Sheep Ranchers
An animal rights group wants to shut down the only slaughterhouse in Denver city limits. Those who oppose a local ballot measure say it would cost thousands of jobs and could devastate sheep ranchers in Wyoming and throughout the U.S.
Jackie DorothyOctober 30, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: Sweetwater County Library Built On Pioneer Graves And Were Not Moved
If it sounds like the movie Poltergeist, there are similarities. The Sweetwater County Library was built on an old cemetery and the graves were supposed to have been moved. But not all of them were.
Jackie DorothyOctober 27, 2024
Wyoming Rewind: Ten Sleep Hill Climb Was 100 MPH Of 2-Lane Road With No Guardrails
For 20 years, the Ten Sleep Hill Climb drew thousands of people to watch driver race up old Highway 16. It was a steep, dangerous race at more than 100 mph on a winding, two-lane road with no guardrails.
Jackie DorothyOctober 27, 2024
Famous Yankee Lady B-17 Bomber Makes Final Flight Over Wyoming
The Yankee Lady, a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, made her final flight across the West and Wyoming this past week. It was emotional for fans of the famous bomber, which was featured in the movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!”
Jackie DorothyOctober 27, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: White Devil, The Spectral Horse That Protects Wild Mustangs
The White Devil was a ghostly white stallion in the 1800s who protected his herds of wild mustangs against the cowboys who attempted to rope them. It's said that this spectral horse still roams the Rattlesnake Range above Casper, Wyoming.
Jackie DorothyOctober 27, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: Soldier Was Ambushed And Buried In 1866, Then He Returned To Fort
Known as “Dead Duck,” a Wyoming Territory soldier was killed in an ambush by Indians during the Fetterman Fight in 1866, and buried. At least that's what he was told when he returned to the fort.
Jackie DorothyOctober 26, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: Ghosts Still Have Prohibition Liquor Parties At Greybull Hotel
The historic Greybull Hotel was owned by a rum runner during Prohibition who had a hidden speakeasy in the basement where he served up illegal scotch. Seems the good times never stopped for the ghosts that still hold Prohibition liquor parties there.
Jackie DorothyOctober 26, 2024
Wyoming Ranchers Say Fed Guidelines To Reduce Beef More Evidence Radical Interests Have Taken Over
New federal guidelines released this week suggesting Americans eat less beef is more proof that radical interests have taken over, say Wyoming ranchers and farmers. It's all political they say and has nothing to do with science.
Jackie DorothyOctober 23, 2024
Antelope Butte Preps For Ski Season In The Shadow Of Massive Wildfire
Getting ready for the ski season has been more challenging this year at Antelope Butte Ski Resort. That’s because the resort also has been a spike camp for some of the hundreds of firefighters battling the 96,000-acre Elk Fire.
Jackie DorothyOctober 22, 2024
Wyoming High Schoolers Use Bugs, Power Tools To Clean Skulls For Hunters
Bugs and power tools are part of the curriculum for a class of Wyoming high schoolers. It’s the Bugs N’ Bones class at Wind River High, where students learn while they clean skulls for hunters.
Jackie DorothyOctober 20, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: Kirwin Is A Ghost Town Haunted By Real Spirits
A fortune was spent building the mining boom town of Kirwin, Wyoming, only for the people living there to abandon it, terrified by ghostly voices. They didn’t even bother to pack their tools and other belongings, they just left.
Jackie DorothyOctober 20, 2024
Hall-Of-Fame: It Takes Special Kind Of Tough To Be Wyoming Cowboy
Wyoming’s cowboys have endured the worst the state can throw at them — weather, horse wrecks and lost cattle. It takes a special kind of tough, and Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame inductees say there’s nothing they’d rather do
Jackie DorothyOctober 20, 2024
Haunted Wyoming: Lost Hunter Saved By Ghost Boy In Bighorn Mountains
A 17-year-old hunter lost on Trapper Creek in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains in 1951 found his way thanks to a boy in a red flannel shirt. Locals say he was saved by the ghost of another 17-year-old who died on his own hunting trip 19 years before.
Jackie DorothyOctober 19, 2024
Wyoming Babies In The Running To Be Baby Of The Year, Featured In Good Housekeeping
Little Aaila Gurtler is 5 months old, has five siblings and loves to make gurgling monster noises. She’s also in the running to represent Wyoming as the next Baby of the Year to be featured in Good Housekeeping.
Jackie DorothyOctober 18, 2024