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Mark Heinz

Wildlife

Wyoming hunters seeking next fall’s trophy bulls and bucks can start looking now. After months of explosive growth, elk and deer antlers are about as big as they’re going to get for the year.

Good nutrition is the key. With the onset of spring, bucks and bulls must first recover the body mass they lost over the winter. Then they continue eating like hogs, pumping additional nutrients into antler growth.

In peak season, typically in early summer, antlers can grow up to an inch a day.

During the process, a fuzzy substance called “velvet” covers the antlers. It looks like its namesake, but is actually skin, dense with blood vessels and covered with short, dense fur.

As summer wanes, the velvet starts to dry, and the animals rub it off on trees and brush.

Once the velvet is rubbed off, elk emerge with a clean set of headgear, just in time for fierce, 

 associated with the rut, or mating season.

The elk rut starts in mid-September and lasts “well into October,” retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Bruce Smith told Cowboy State daily.

The deer rut usually starts in late October, peaks in November and might run into December.

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Buck and bulls go through a yearly cycle of growing, shedding and then re-growing their antlers, with each set getting larger than the previous year’s.

Large bull elk start shedding their antlers as early as February, said Smith, who was the senior biologist at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson from 1982 to 2004 and now lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Smaller bulls and spikes (male elk that have only single-tine, spike antlers) might not shed theirs until April or May, he said.

With that jump-start, larger bulls might start growing antlers by April, Smith said.

However, they’re still trying to make up for the nutritional deficit coming out of winter.

Antler growth can’t really kick into high gear until late spring or early summer, when green, nutrient-rich grasses and other plants become available, Smith said.

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Elk are primarily grazers (grass-eaters), while deer are browsers, relying heavily on shrubs and forbs.

After mid-July, hot dry weather settles in “like we’re having now,” Smith said.

Foliage starts to dry out and its nutritional value wanes, so antler growth slows to a stop.  

Bull elk might then seek green “riparian areas and wet meadows,” which could help boost a final antler growth spurt, Smith said.

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What all of that means is that hunters eyeballing bulls and bucks now, in mid-July, can have get a reasonable estimation of how big they’ll be during the fall hunting seasons after the velvet comes off, Smith said.

He noted that elk habits can be driven by “nitrogen and lead.” (The latter being a reference to the lead in hunter’s bullets).

"They are attracted to nitrogen, and they’re afraid of lead,” he said.

The nitrogen, or nitrates, is the primary nutrient that is easily digestible and promotes antler growth, Smith said.

Antlers might frequently be called “bone,” which is reasonably accurate, he added.

“It’s certainly more like bone than another other particular tissue or structure that you might find in the animal’s body,” Smith said.

The entire region had a mild winter and early spring, which bodes well for wildlife, and antler growth, Smith said.

He lives in Montana, which also saw significant rains recently. That also helps with antler growth.

So, Smith expects at least average antler growth in Montana bull elk this year.

It might not be so great in Wyoming, which leaned toward the dry side this spring and early summer, said avid hunter Owen Miller, who lives in northeast Wyoming.

“They (antlers) grow fast from the start of the growing stage. This time of year, it looks like they’re growing faster because each tine (point) is growing,” he told Cowboy State Daily.

 “A dry year, like this summer has been, also has an effect on them. With less green foliage around, and being dry, it has fewer nutrients,” he added.

“Both bucks and bulls can be smaller than the previous year, due to water shortages and fewer nutrients during drought,” he said.

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<title>After Growing Fast Through July, Elk And Deer Antlers About As Big As They’ll Get | Cowboy State Daily</title>

During the peak antler growing-season of spring and early summer, Wyoming bull elk and buck deer can add an inch per day to their antlers thanks to lush foliage. Now that it's the peak of summer, antler growth will grind almost to a halt.

After Growing Fast Through July, Elk And Deer Antlers About As Big As They’ll Get

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Jackie Dorothy

Wyoming Life

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Rancher Elmer Brock claimed that Canton had "yellow coyote eyes." Edward Burnett, a rancher who also knew him well, said that when Canton got his steely eye on a man that settled it.

“Canton carried a gun, perhaps sometimes two of them,” Burnett said. “I never knew of his using one. His eye was sufficient.”

Canton was also a man with a secret identit

 admitted his real name was Joe Horner. 

According to Margaret Brock Hanson in her book “Powder River Country,” Canton had gone on a cattle drive through Kansas when he was a teenager in 1869. On his way home through Texas, he found trouble.

“The stories vary as to the adventures of these boys,” Hanson wrote. “But it seems that they got to Jacksboro where they all got liquored up and tried to shoot up the town.”

Near Jacksboro was Fort Richardson. Hanson said the story she heard was that Buffalo soldiers tried to arrest the cowboys and some were killed. The boys escaped and headed west to unsettled country. 

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“Evidently, young Joe Horner was not in on the robbery and was left behind when the other boys left town in a hurry,” Hanson said. “Therefore, Joe was the only one who was arrested.”

Another story was that Horner could not reveal his alibi without compromising a girl of good repute. 

He was tried, convicted and given a long jail sentence. Horner was said to have escaped with the help of the girl or her family. Other rumors said the jailer’s daughter became enamored with him and helped him escape. 

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In Canton’s autobiography “Frontier Trails”, there is no mention of 

 as a teenager or even that he changed his name. He does write about joining a big cattle drive when he was 17 in the spring of 1869, and about subsequent cattle drives.   

By 1878, the fugitive accepted a position with the Wyoming Stock Raisers’ Association as field inspector, with headquarters at Cheyenne.

“My duties were to take charge of the criminal work on the range, protect the interests of members of the Association, recover stolen property, and furnish evidence against stock thieves,” Canton wrote in his memoirs.

He was sent to the Yellowstone River country in Montana, with headquarters at Miles City. He then investigated a report that the Crow Indians were killing some of the association’s cattle and selling the beef for elk meat.

Canton said he took advantage of the trip to look over the battleground where Gen. Custer and 278 men were killed two years earlier at Little Big Horn.

“History calls this the 'Custer Massacre', but according to the Indian custom, I would call it a fair fight,” Canton said. “Custer made the first attack on the Indians and after that they had to fight and they certainly did fight to a finish.”

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When Canton arrived in Montana, the railroad ended in Miles City. The only way to travel west was by horse or stagecoach.

Canton said the railroad company furnished free transportation from the East to all laborers. 

se criminal element in the big cities took them up on the offer.

“The result was that the country west of Miles City, Montana, was soon overrun with the most desperate gang of cut-throats that ever went unhung,” Canton said.

He complained that the cattle thieves and the stage robbers along the Yellowstone were bad enough, but when this bunch of city thugs was turned loose, law-abiding citizens were surrounded by unbearable conditions.

“The officers were brave and determined, and did their duty, but there were not enough of them,” Canton said. “The actual residents in Montana then took a hand in the game.”

According to Canton, vigilante committees were organized and second warnings were never issued.

“If the first warning was not obeyed, you would probably find several dead bodies hanging to telegraph poles,” Canton said. “The vigilantes soon ran the crooks out of the towns.”

Granville Stuart, president of the Montana Stock Association, then recruited 50 cowboys in a war of extermination against the criminals on the range and along the Yellowstone, Musselshell and Missouri rivers.  

The criminals who escaped were said to hav

Canton moved from Miles City in 1880 and settled at Buffalo, Wyoming, still in the employ of the Wyoming Stock Association. He homesteaded 480 acres 

iles southwest of Buffalo at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains, where he began farming and stock raising.

“It was the best rendezvous for outlaws that I have ever seen,” he said. “And they were there, plenty of them.” 

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Burnett, the rancher who knew Canton well, said the high life in the little adolescent city of Buffalo was altogether too much for the sheriff and deputy.

“The County Commissioners could not put them out of office, so they put in Frank Canton as deputy sheriff and stock inspector,” Burnett said. “He called to him a little sawed-off Texan of the name of Jim Enochs, and they hung a man or two and then things settled down nice and quiet.”

Canton was elected sheriff of Johnson County in 1882. He appointed John McDermott as undersheriff to take charge of the office and hired 18 field deputies.

“I had but little time to stay in my office for the next two years, for I was in charge of the field work myself, and in the saddle most of the time,” Canton said.

Burnett said Canton was sheriff for two terms and could have had a third, but he thought McDermott was entitled to the office so he did not run.

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Burnett, according to the Wyoming State Archives, was a native of Durham, England. He immigrated to Texas where, in 1880, he joined a trail herd bound for Wyoming. 

In Johnson County, Burnett settled on the Forty-One Ranch near Buffalo, which became one of the largest cattle ranches in the Powder River country.

“After Canton went out of office, he lived on a farm adjoining me,” Burnett said. “Cattle stealing and killing beef got bad.”

Burnett dug for coal about two miles away. One morning, he

 “A beef has been killed in those hills where you dig your coal,” Canton said. “Let’s go and look it up.”

Burnett said he saddled his own horse, Angel Eyes, and off they went. They found the head and hide of the beef and circled around looking for trail signs. When they got together again, Burnett asked Canton if he had found anything.

Canton produced the sleeve of an old shirt and said, “When we find the rest of this shirt, there will be a hanging.”

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“That’s a piece of an old shirt of mine,” he said. “My wife tied up a lunch for me the last load of coal I dug. The rest of the shirt is at home."

Years afterward, Burnett told this story to a neighbor cowman who said, “What was the brand on that beef you killed?” 

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After he left the sheriff’s office, Canton returned to his job with the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association. Soon after, he became involved in the Johnson County War on behalf of his employers.

On April 9, 1892, it was Canton who led the Regulators to the KC Ranch, where the ensuing battle ended in the deaths of Nick Ray and Nate Champion.

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At 5 p.m., Canton set the house on fire. Champion burst out of the house firing his Winchester rifle and was shot 28 times. 

Champion had taken his boots off, symbolically not dying with “his boots on,” a term used to describe the death of an outlaw, according to historian Clay Gibbons.  

Two days later a huge posse, led by Sheriff Angus, surrounded the Regulators at the TA Ranch. Fortunately for Canton, the U.S. Cavalry's arrival rescued him from having to surrender. 

The newspapers portrayed Canton and the others in a favorable light because of the influences of his employers.

Canton, like the other Regulators, was freed. He left Wyoming

He eventually became adjutant general for the Oklahoma National Guard. It was there that Canton confessed that he was Horner, and the governor of Texas granted him a pardon.

Despite Canton’s tactics and cold eyes that Burnett said would have made Canton a good banker, the rancher ended his own memoirs about Canton with praise.

“As a neighbor, Frank Canton was one of the best,” Burnett said. “He had the greatest virtue of all which is Charity.”

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<title>Wyoming History: Ruthless Sheriff Needed A Secret Identity From Cattle Rustlers | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Johnson County Frank Canton was so ruthless with cattle rustlers and quick with a gun that he needed a secret identity. “If the first warning was not obeyed, you would probably find several dead bodies hanging to telegraph poles,” he once said.

Wyoming History: Ruthless Sheriff Needed A Secret Identity From Cattle Rustlers

Coy Knobel

Sunny in Wyoming on Sunday with a chance of afternoon rain in some areas. Heat advisory in parts of the state. Chance of rain in some locations overnight.  Highs from the mid 80s to 106. Lows from the low 50s to low 70s.

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Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 100 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 66.

Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 100 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 64.

 Sunny and hot today with a high near 101 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 65.

 Sunny today with a high near 91 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 57.

  Sunny and hot today with a high near 98 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a low near 63 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunny and breezy today with a high near 93 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly clear overnight with a low near 57 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.

 Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 88 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 7 p.m. and a low near 55.

 Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise sunny today with a high near 94 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 8 p.m. and a low near 56.

  Sunny today with a high near 89 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly clear overnight with a low near 53 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

 Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 8 p.m., a low near 54 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

  Slight chance of rain after noon, otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 91 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 55.

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:  Chance of rain mainly after 1 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 84 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 48.

Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 1 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 100 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 8 p.m. and a low near 67.

:  Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Chance of rain mainly after 1 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 95 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 66.

  Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 96 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 62.

   Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise sunny and breezy today with a high near 94 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 67.

  Extreme heat warning until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 98 and partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, patchy smoke after midnight and a low near 62.

:   Extreme heat warning until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 97 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, patchy smoke after midnight and a low near 64.

Heat advisory until 8 p.m. tonight. Sunny and hot today with a high near 100 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight, a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

   Heat advisory until 8 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after noon, otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 102 and wind gusts as high as 17 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain, a low near 72 and wind gusts as high as 16 mph.

:  Heat advisory until 8 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after noon, otherwise mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 101 and wind gusts as high as 16 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight and a low near 68.

  Heat advisory until Monday night. Sunny and hot today with a high near 106 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 69.

  Heat advisory until Monday night. Sunny and hot today with a high near 101 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 65.

  Heat advisory until 9 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 99 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 8 p.m. and a low near 64.

   Heat advisory until Monday night. Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 98 and mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 65.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 91 and mostly cloudy overnight a slight chance of rain and a low near 60.

   Heat advisory until Monday night. Mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 99 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 68.

  Mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 93 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 64.

   Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 94 and mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 60.

   Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 93 and partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 7 p.m. and a low near 59.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Sunday, July 26, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Sunny in Wyoming and hot on Sunday with a chance of afternoon rain in some areas. Heat advisory in parts of the state. Chance of rain in some locations overnight.  Highs from the mid 80s to 106. Lows from the low 50s to low 70s.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Sunday, July 26, 2026

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Dale Killingbeck

He was a collector of cars, coins, guns, clocks, rocks, friends and anything else that claimed his interest.

And if there wasn’t a garage on his property, he built one.

A year after the passing of Dale Corkill his widow, Patricia, and stepdaughter, Amanda Lake, are trying to find good homes for two of his four-wheeled possessions. 

He and Patricia closed on a house in Glenrock, sent three cars to its garage, and then he died of cancer at a Riverton hospice on May 21, 2025, a week before he was to move in.

Patricia Corkill said she did not realize how many cars her husband of 26 years owned at the time he died, but she pulled out a stack of titles she had to get transferred into her name.

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A Glenrock widow has stories to tell about her late husband who was a prolific collector of cars, rocks, clocks, guns, gadgets, and much more. A year after his death, she's still trying to "find good homes" for his 1925 Model T Opera car and 1931 Model A.