Bill Sniffin
Bill Sniffin has been a publisher and author in Wyoming for 53 years. He formerly owned all or part interest in 20 different newspapers, magazines, print shops, ad agencies, and internet companies.
He is one of Wyoming's best-known columnists, having written a statewide column for more than 22 years and a local column for 38 years prior to that.
Sniffin has published six books including three Wyoming-themed coffee table books, called the Wyoming Trilogy. He lives in Lander with his wife Nancy.
Latest from Bill Sniffin
Bill Sniffin’s Advice To Grads: Follow Your Dreams But Keep Your Day Job
Bill Sniffin writes: I worry a lot about this generation of graduates, that is, until I spend some time with them.
Bill SniffinMay 19, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Promoter Now Says Green River Water Transfer Is Good For Wyoming?
Bill Sniffin writes: Now Aaron Million thinks he has figured out how to get the water. And he believes that Wyoming people will be happy to hear this newest version of his plan.
Bill SniffinMay 12, 2022
Bill Sniffin: 52 Years Ago, Yellowstone Was An Ill-Defined Place Compared To Today
Bill Sniffin writes: I am literally one of a handful of people still alive who also attended the parks centennial celebration in Cody in 1972.
Bill SniffinMay 07, 2022
Bill Sniffin: With Trump Coming To Wyoming, Will This Be The Biggest Political Crowd In State’s History?
Bill Sniffin writes about the biggest political crowds in Wyoming: Much to Republicans chagrin, up to now, the existing records for political turnouts in the state belong to Democrats.
Bill SniffinMay 04, 2022
Bill Sniffin: The Wind – My God – Why Has The Wind Increased So Much?
Bill Sniffin writes: If a season could be schizophrenic it would be Wyomings spring.
Bill SniffinApril 28, 2022
Bill Sniffin: In World War III, Cheyenne Becomes Biggest Bulls-Eye In The World
Because Wyoming is the home base to 150 sites of ICBM nuclear-tipped missiles around the F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, our state capital would be one of the main targets of Russian missiles.
Bill SniffinApril 21, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Fashion Commentary On Holsters, Fanny Packs, Pocket Protectors, Nose Rings
Bill Sniffin writes: "It looks like my cell phone holster is toast. However, I am definitely not ready for a nose ring.
Bill SniffinApril 16, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Wyoming Was Prehistoric Land Of Beasts, Rock Art, Mysterious Places
Bill Sniffin writes: Some of the biggest animals that ever lived, both reptile and mammal, lived in Wyoming in earlier times.
Bill SniffinApril 11, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Masters Golf Is This Week; Here Are Some Memories of Wyomingites Who Have Gone
Bill Sniffin writes: But for a few days in April of 2001, this might have been the most fun I have ever had on a golf course and I wasnt even playing.
Bill SniffinApril 06, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Everybody Wants Wyoming Water; How Do We Keep Colorado From Stealing It?
The biggest threat to Wyoming water has been posed by a Fort Collins entrepreneur, Aaron Million. He lusts after that water and has promoted plans upon plans to get it to the Front Range of Colorado.
Bill SniffinApril 01, 2022
Bill Sniffin: The Richest Man In The World Lives Here In The Cowboy State
Bill Sniffin writes about the Richest Man in the World: It is well-known that Joe married up, which means he found himself an ideal wife. People say his wife should not put up with all of Joes hobbies, but she accepts them with a smile, because she likes them, too.
Bill SniffinMarch 29, 2022
Bill Sniffin: Mark Miller Tells The Sordid Story of Big Nose George Better Than Anyone Else
Bill Sniffin writes: "Not sure any Wyoming outlaw endured what poor Big Nose George Parott, a train robber and confessed murderer, had to put up with as an angry mob put an end to his worthless life in Rawlins in 1881."
Bill SniffinMarch 24, 2022