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<title>Family Picks Up Search For Missing Gillette Cowboy After Nearly 20 Years | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Roy Vavra mysteriously disappeared in January 2006 after friends reported seeing an unknown white pickup parked in his driveway. Apart from one unconfirmed sighting, there have been no traces of the Gillette man in nearly two decades.

Family Picks Up Search For Missing Gillette Cowboy After Nearly 20 Years

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<title>Wyoming History: Gillette Named For Railroad Surveyor Who Never Lived There | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Surveyor Edward Gillette saved a railroad thousands of dollars by rerouting tracks near Donkey Creek in northeast Wyoming, and the grateful company named the new town of Gillette after him. Before then it was known as Donkey Town.

Wyoming History: Gillette Named For Railroad Surveyor Who Never Lived There

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<title>3D-Printed Skulls Mean Hunters Don’t Have To Boil Heads To Mount Trophy Antlers | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Until 3D printing technology along, hunters would boil an animal’s skinned head for hours making it easier to scrape off the remaining flesh or get a tank full of carnivorous beetles, eager to devour the flesh and brains, picking the skull clean.

3D-Printed Skulls Mean Hunters Don’t Have To Boil Heads To Mount Trophy Antlers

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Public Safety

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<title>Mystery Deepens Over Missing Cattle In Northern Colorado | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Dozens of Black Angus cows have vanished from multiple ranches northeast of Greeley, Colorado. Ranchers suspect theft as authorities investigate the baffling disappearances. Rancher Chad Sanger, who is missing 9 cows, says there are no holes in his fences.

Mystery Deepens Over Missing Cattle In Northern Colorado

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<title>Just Off I-25 In Chugwater, It’s Too Windy Even For A Cup Of Coffee | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming’s infamous winter wind was in full force this week, leaving dozens of blown-over semitrailers littered across the state’s highways. Just off I-25 in Chugwater, it was too windy even to pour a cup of coffee.

Just Off I-25 In Chugwater, It’s Too Windy Even For A Cup Of Coffee

Wildlife

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<title>Meet 'The Boss,' Canada's Legendary 700-Pound, 28-Year-Old Grizzly Who Beat A Train | Cowboy State Daily</title>

In Wyoming, the most famous bear was Grizzly 399. In Canada, it's a gigantic 700-pound grizzly known as "The Boss." Not only did he walk away after being hit by a train but biologists say he's fathered half the cubs in Banff National Park in Alberta.

Meet 'The Boss,' Canada's Legendary 700-Pound, 28-Year-Old Grizzly Who Beat A Train

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