Around Wyoming

Entertainment

Food

Sports

Obituaries

Wyoming Life

Heinz mark

Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Wildlife

Grizzlies snow getty 12 28 25

Cowboy State Daily is Wyoming’s largest newspaper with Wyoming’s most experienced journalists. 

<title>Overcoming Fear Of Getting Mauled A Big Part Of Hunting In Grizzly Country | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Celia Easton of Thermopolis said being attacked by a grizzly last October while she was elk hunting alone in the Beartooth Mountains has left her shaken. “Until you go through something like that, you don’t understand what it does to you,” she said

Overcoming Fear Of Getting Mauled A Big Part Of Hunting In Grizzly Country

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily reporter, Dale Killingbeck

Dale Killingbeck

Chris Navarro snow fence sculpture 12 28 25

<title>Why Chris Navarro Is Using Old Wind Turbine Blade To Make Snow Fence Sculpture | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Celebrated Wyoming sculptor Chris Navarro has used a giant wind turbine blade to make a snow fence sculpture at the Wyoming Rescue Mission ranch near Casper. He says “Wall of Renewal” could prove the viability of repurposing old blades as snow fences across the state.

Why Chris Navarro Is Using Old Wind Turbine Blade To Make Snow Fence Sculpture

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily's Feature Reporter, Andrew Rossi.

Andrew Rossi

Business & Tourism

Business

Little America One of two penguins gifted to Little America by Admiral Byrd The other is kept at the Cheyenne Little America 12 28 25

<title>Little America Wyoming’s Plan To Keep A Living Penguin Was Doomed From The Start | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Back in the 1930s, an ill-advised plan was hatched to keep a living penguin at the Little America hotel in southwest Wyoming. The emperor penguin started its journey from Antarctica alive but died during transport. The stuffed penguin is still on display there and another at the Little America hotel in Cheyenne.

Little America Wyoming’s Plan To Keep A Living Penguin Was Doomed From The Start

David Madison

Lincoln County bridge CAP2 acrow bridge in lincoln county wyoming 12 27 25

<title>Crumbling Bridge Near Alpine Replaced In Days With WWII ‘Erector Set’ Tech | Cowboy State Daily</title>

When a crumbling bridge over the Salt River near Alpine was failing, engineers turned to an “Erector Set” concept invented during WW II. It comes together in days, and could be used more across Wyoming with nearly half the state’s bridges past their prime.

Crumbling Bridge Near Alpine Replaced In Days With WWII ‘Erector Set’ Tech

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily's business and tourism reporter, Renée Jean

Renée Jean

Outlaw Music Fest Winston Creeek 12 27 25

<title>No More Chris LeDoux Days? No Problem. Kaycee’s Outlaw Music Fest Takes Its Place | Cowboy State Daily</title>

For 15 years, Chris LeDoux Days in Kaycee was a mainstay of Wyoming's summer music scene. Now that it’s over, locals have organized a new Outlaw Music Festival to take its place.

No More Chris LeDoux Days? No Problem. Kaycee’s Outlaw Music Fest Takes Its Place

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily reporter, Jackie Dorothy.

Jackie Dorothy

The American West

Polly Bartlett and south pass gold mine 12 27 25

<title>Wyoming History: The Deadly Damsel Of South Pass Who Seduced, Then Murdered 22 Men | Cowboy State Daily</title>

In the height of the gold rush, South Pass City was the place for men to strike it rich — and for 22 of them, get murdered if they did. That’s because Polly Bartlett, the “Deadly Damsel,” would seduce, poison, and rob them.

Wyoming History: The Deadly Damsel Of South Pass Who Seduced, Then Murdered 22 Men

<title>Garry Lee Smith | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Garry Lee Smith

Garry Lee Smith, 90