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Built in 1880, 10 years before Wyoming became a state, the hotel has hosted a number of famous guests: Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wister, Tom Horn, Herbert Hoover and President Teddy Roosevelt all have hung their hats at the Occidental, as have Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Ernest Hemingway.
A retired military couple from Virginia is visiting all 74 libraries in Wyoming before determining which town they will move to. Shoshoni was a possibility until they learned the library was closing.
Still not in the Halloween spirit? With more than two weeks to go before Halloween, here are a few haunted highlights from around the Cowboy State.
Excitement is building in Buffalo, as townspeople gear up for an influx of fans from all over the world for “Longmire Days” which begins on Thursday.
Buffalo residents who gathered at The Busy Bee on Saturday weren’t that sure about HGTV’s claim that their town needed “kick-starting” for its “Home Town Takeover” TV show which airs on April 24.
Wyoming’s public services will all suffer with the halt in energy development on public lands, Gov. Mark Gordon told a congressional committee Tuesday.
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Occidental Petroleum ended weeks of anticipation Wednesday when the company announced that it would sell land grant assets in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah to Orion Mine Finance.
Occidental Petroleum has selected a bidder other than the state of Wyoming as a potential buyer for its land and mineral rights in southern Wyoing, putting the the state’s pursuit of the property on hold, Gov. Mark Gordon announced Tuesday.
State officials have received no response to their bid on more than 1 million acres of private land in southern Wyoming, an official said Monday.
A proposed major oil and gas development project in Converse County moved one step closer to federal approval with a release of the final environmental impact statement on the project.
Cuts in state spending beyond the $250 million reduction already authorized by Gov. Mark Gordon will be needed going forward, he said Wednesday.
Wyoming’s top elected officials voted unanimously to authorize the state to move ahead with a bid for 1 million acres of land and 4 million acres of mineral rights currently owned by Occidental Petroleum.
The state’s purchase of 4 million acres of mineral rights in southern Wyoming could generate a long-term return of about 7.25% if the state purchased the rights to trona in that land as well
The state’s top five officials on Monday will consider offering a bid for about 1 million acres of private land in southern Wyoming, Gov. Mark Gordon announced Wednesday.
Although vetoing the bill, Gordon continued to pledge his commitment “that we will continue to find ways to take steps to explore this opportunity.”
A bill that would have laid out the process for evaluating the state’s possible purchase of 1 million acres of land in southern Wyoming was vetoed Friday by Gov. Mark Gordon.
3:34pm Lots of action (and inaction) in the governor’s office today. The remaining bills from this past budget session either were signed into law, vetoed, or went into law without a signature. Here’s a recap:
I’ve been critical of the secrecy and lack of public information about this proposed land deal that is so massive that it would be the largest government purchase of private land since the United States purchased Alaska.
Last week the Wyoming Legislature adopted revisions to two draft bills that allow state officials to move forward in pursuing a huge land purchase involving 1 million acres of surface and 4 million acres of mineral rights in the checkerboard of southern Wyoming.
Cowboy State Daily anchor Bob Geha sat down with Randall Luthi, Gov. Gordon’s chief energy advisor, and longtime political operative Rod Miller to discuss the state’s million acre land deal.
Our state leaders keep telling us that what a unique opportunity this deal is, and that the deal could be a “strategic investment” to add income to state coffers, and “unprecedented multiple-use access for the public.” But when it comes to specifics, they aren’t sharing much.
Opportunities like this don’t come along very often. The land grant has only changed hands twice in its 150-plus year history. It’s likely that this would be the largest government purchase of private land since the United States purchased Alaska. That’s a big deal.
On Monday the House Appropriations Committee worked until after 9 p.m. to make substantial revisions to House Bill 249 that enables Governor Mark Gordon and other members of the State Loan and Investment Board to examine and negotiate a deal for 1 million acres of surface and 4 million acres of mineral rights in southwestern Wyoming.
Most people I’ve talked to about this proposed land deal usually respond with “What the …” and “I thought the State was broke,” but some have expressed the view that it would be good to have more public land, more public access, more areas set aside for wildlife – as if state and federal lands are managed in the same way. They aren’t.
The hypocrisy of Gordon mentioning his commitment to state government transparency in his State of the State address is not lost on me.
For some, the thought of 1 million acres of private land being gobbled up by government – in a state that is already majority-owned by government – is a hard pill to swallow.
When a restaurant is prominently mentioned in a popular western book and television series, you have to reckon it offers up some pretty good food.
Buffalo’s Busy Bee Cafe, a regular stop for fictional western lawman Walt Longmire, does not disappoint.
