Renée Jean
Renée Jean is the business and tourism reporter for Cowboy State Daily and is based in Cheyenne. Previously, Renée spent seven years covering energy and agriculture in North Dakota and Montana. She has won many writing awards over a 30-year career, and has written magazine articles for Guideposts.
Latest from Renée Jean
Want To Be A Character In A C.J. Box Book? Once A Year, You Get A Chance
Being a character in a “Joe Pickett” novel would be a dream come true for many fans of Wyoming author C.J. Box. So, he offers it up as an auction item to benefit his hometown Saratoga Museum.
Renée JeanAugust 10, 2024
Wyoming Artist Bob Coronato’s “Trump Train” Painting Catches Fire With MAGA Nation
Hulett, Wyoming, artist Bob Coronato already has a painting in the Smithsonian. The artist, best known for painting historical figures, has painted six Trump campaign posters, and is planning to show them to the former president at a fundraiser this weekend in Jackson.
Renée JeanAugust 10, 2024
The Party Next Door: Hulett's Ham And Jam On Wednesday Of Sturgis Week
Although the topless rodeo is no longer allowed, Hulett's annual Ham and Jam still gets wild. Some 30,000 bikers head to the town on Wednesday of Sturgis week for free pork sandwiches, music, insanity, and surprisingly, very few arrests.
Renée JeanAugust 10, 2024
Antlers Ranch Near Meeteetse Listed At $85 Million, In Same Family Since 1895
The historic Antlers Ranch near Meeteetse, Wyoming, has hit the market for $85 million. The ranch, which includes 16,532 deeded acres and control of more than 40,000 acres, has been in the same family since 1895 and has never been for sale before.
Renée JeanAugust 08, 2024
Popular Coffee Spot Still Has Plenty Of Historic Ten Sleep Mercantile In It
Who doesn’t love a good bullet hole or two, especially when it’s in a building that has a lot of history and character? That’s the case for the Big Horn Mountain Stage Co., a coffee stop in Ten Sleep that’s about to turn 120 years old.
Renée JeanAugust 04, 2024
Cody’s 2 Mules Chuckwagon Explodes In Popularity Thanks To Guy Fieri
Cody’s 2 Mules Chuckwagon is real working, living, breathing history that you can literally taste. And it’s become a lot more popular ever since appearing on Food Network host and restaurateur Guy Fieri’s “Guy’s All-American Road Trip.”
Renée JeanAugust 04, 2024
Greybull Cheers Local Teen Who Finally Gets A New Heart
Ayden Skillman has lived much of his life without a complete heart because of a congenital heart defect. Now his hometown of Greybull, Wyoming, is cheering the local 18-year-old who’s always shown tons of heart who finally has a new one.
Renée JeanAugust 04, 2024
Drinking Wyoming: The Experience In Pinedale Lives Up To Its Name
The Experience at Lakeside in Pinedale lives up to its name. The restaurant and bar sits beside Fremont Lake’s deep, blue, crystal-clear water surrounded by the beautiful Wind River Range off in the distance.
Renée JeanAugust 03, 2024
Almost $1B Spent So Far To Push Through $25B Mega Kroger-Albertsons Merger
Kroger and Albertsons have already spent nearly $1 billion to push through a massive $25 billion mega grocery merger. That’s even as three legal cases are teeing up that are bound to cost more.
Renée JeanAugust 03, 2024
Wyoming’s Only Adults-Only Hotel Opens In Jackson, And Rooms Start At $1,800 A Night
The first kids-free hotel in Wyoming opened Thursday in Jackson. Those 17 and younger are not allowed at all, even if they’re with their parents. Rooms start at $1,799 and range up to $2,199 per night, with a two-night minimum stay.
Renée JeanAugust 02, 2024
New Ownership Takes Over Cheyenne, Casper Local TV Stations
Local television stations in Cheyenne and Casper are now operating under new ownership. Marquee Broadcasting, which acquired KGWN and KCWY, along with two sister stations in Nebraska, has pledged big changes and a renewed commitment to local news.
Renée JeanAugust 01, 2024
Homes Less Than $1 Million In Jackson, Wyoming, Don’t ‘Really Exist Anymore’
Anyone hoping to find a home for less than $1 million in Jackson, Wyoming, are out of luck. While sales and inventory are down, anything under $1 million “doesn’t really exist anymore,” says a local real estate analyst.
Renée JeanJuly 30, 2024
Dept. Of Defense Backs Away From Pushing Lab-Grown Meat On U.S. Military
The Department of Defense has backed off spending a $500 million grant it got for laboratory-grown meat. That came after intense pressure from groups like the National Cattlemen’s Beef and Wyoming Stock Growers associations.
Renée JeanJuly 29, 2024
55-Year Cheyenne Frontier Days Volunteer Recalls When It Was Wilder
With more than 2,500 volunteers, Cheyenne Frontier Days has more helpers than many Wyoming towns. Lynn McColl, who has been a volunteers for 55 years, says it was wilder when he started. “I drank my first beer in Cheyenne riding down the street at 13 on a horse,” he said.
Renée JeanJuly 28, 2024
Meet The Elite Navy SEALs Who Drop 6,000 Feet At Cheyenne Frontier Days
It’s become a Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo tradition — the elite Navy SEAL Leap Frog team parachuting from 6,000 feet into the stadium. The SEALS say Frontier Days is a must event for them because it's a military town coupled with a cowboy culture.
Renée JeanJuly 28, 2024
Big Boy 4014 Gets Huge Welcome As It Chugs Home To Cheyenne Depot
Big Boy 4014 was welcomed home in Cheyenne on Friday after a month-long summer tour in Utah, Nevada, California, Idaho, and Wyoming. An estimated 200,000 people came out on the tour to the see the world's largest working steam engine.
Renée JeanJuly 27, 2024
No Matter Where He Roams, Wyoming Is Always Home For Lost Cowboy J.B. Zielke
Saratoga cowboy J.B. Zielke has cowboyed on six of the seven continents around the globe. But no matter how far he roams, the man known as The Lost Cowboy always comes home to Wyoming.
Renée JeanJuly 27, 2024
“Yellowstone” Star Among A-Listers Who Can’t Miss Cheyenne Frontier Days
“Yellowstone” star Moses Brings Plenty is among the A-list celebrities who love Cheyenne Frontier Days. This week, he spent time at the Princess Blue Water exhibit and Indian Village.
Renée JeanJuly 26, 2024
Cheyenne Frontier Days Parade Features World’s Largest Collection Of Wagons
Sam Gill and Mike Stein have both driven teams of horses for the famous “Yellowstone” prequel television series “1883,” but they would not miss the Cheyenne Frontier Days parade which feature 160-some historic horse-drawn wagons -- the world’s largest collection of operable old-time wagons.
Renée JeanJuly 25, 2024
Two Wyoming Heroes Honored At Cheyenne Frontier Days For Saving Boy's Life
Over 10,000 people at Cheyenne Frontier Days gave two men a standing ovation on Wednesday for their heroism earlier this year when they saved an 11-year-old boy who had fallen into the whitewater rapids of the Popo Agie River.
Renée JeanJuly 25, 2024
Cheyenne Frontier Days Has Fed More Than 1.4 Million Guests Free Pancakes
The free pancake feed that happens three times during Cheyenne Frontier Days has served over 1.4 million guests 4.5 million pancakes. It takes 5,000 pounds of batter to pull the event off each year, along with 425 gallons of syrup. About 30,000 people in all will be served.
Renée JeanJuly 24, 2024