Jacob Adams didn’t like to be around other people.When he and his son decided to homestead in Campbell County in 1918, they picked the most isolated spot they could find.“My grandfather … more

Elias Whitcomb’s only son, Harold, or “Little Whit,” had been born in 1894 just a year after his niece, Marjorie Badgett. At the time, his father bought the pair Shetland ponies and … more

Exactly 100 years ago, a Danish teenager and a middle-aged Scottish bachelor didn’t realize they would eventually merge into one family and amass four sprawling ranches – or become … more

When Vivian Moser Watson looks out her expansive east window, it’s always to gaze at the knoll where her grandparents laughed and cried; where they tended babies and then grandbabies on the … more

Edward Ekdahl Burr came to Wyoming in 1917, like many of those who had fled from Nebraska, to find a better way of life.“He told me he wasn’t going to stay in that Nebraska starving to … more

Brothers Larry and David Shippy of Gillette have spent 35 years picking up the pieces as century-old family ranches splinter and shrink around them. They’ve amassed an old-school cattle ranch … more

It wasn’t uncommon for Campbell County’s pioneer neighbors to offer a hand to each other as they struggled to live off the land. But rarely were two families as close as the Boller and … more

Like his father before him, Joe Slattery kept records — detailed records of every receipt and expenditure of any importance. Every dollar made. Every dollar spent over a lifetime on the family … more

Of the thousands of homesteaders who tried to settle rural Campbell County almost a century ago, fewer than half stuck around. One who did was Virgil Rassbach — and if anyone should have pulled … more

When Frank Force stepped onto the train leaving Gillette, headed to fight in the Great War in July 1918, his worries weren’t with what lay ahead of him. He worried how his wife of one year, … more